Over the past 2000 years, as some aspects of our intellect advanced, others disappeared.

These processes could be understood by analogy to sophisticated villages that once lived in sustainable symbiosis with anciently evolved living places, rather rapidly transforming into factory-laden cities and dead terrain. We traded -most- of the (billions) of opportunities, for maybe three of them. And the three we picked would, without our knowing this, do to the breadth and flexibility of our intelligence… approximately what the forces that established cities did to forests and living places. And we, unfortunately, would count this progress.

In time, we may begin to pitifully attempt to re-establish those forests. Or our cities may crumble as our ‘civilizations’ which are actually parasites too disconnected from humanity and nature to survive, utterly fail to establish anything like their promised glories. And create the opposite. But who will replenish the inner worlds of our minds? Who will attend to the horrifying amputations of diversity, imagination, relational opportunity and meaning which are the common and natural results of the frameworks and habits we are slowly forced into structural and behavioral compliance with.

We will. By learning to better understand — and repair — the basis of our own intelligence, and, particularly, the linguistic heuristic, semantic and knowledge-based aspects which are so vulnerable to ongoing sequential abstraction and which represent the fundamental basis of our potential to be or develop our minds, relational and intellectual assets, and our social and cultural frameworks.

We must discover and repair the basic damage to the roots of our minds, and we must do this while we still have sufficient working intelligence and awareness of these matters to have a shot at succeeding.