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The Empathic Civilization


Cliff's Notes:
  • Empathy is the invisible hand.  Empathy drives action.
  • To civilize is to empathize.
  • Throughout the history of our world, we have invented fictional identities based on our  associations and ability to communicate.  We often call these time periods eras.
  1. Blood-Tie Era
    1. In the forager/hunter civilizations, empathy and communication only extended to the local tribe and shouting distance.  Our only loyalties are to immediate family/blood ties.  Anyone beyond the mountain was alien.
  2. Religious-Tie Era
    1. During the Hydrolic Agricultural civilization, the advent of script annihilated more time and space, extending the central nervous system of a civilization.
    2. At that point, theological consciousness emerged causing further detribalization and creating associations with religious ties.
  3. Nation-State Era (National Identification)
    1. The Industrial revolution of the 19th Century extended markets even further based on complex energy communication revolutions that annihilate time and space.
  4. Homo-empathic Era
    1. Since the global population all were derived from the same genetic parents, why can't we reach out empathically based on our association as an extended human family.
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  1. Julie TSun Mar 13, 06:50:00 PM MDT

    Right-why can't we? I hate to sound so much the pessimist, but those chasms are ones that I am thinking the human family will never have the willingness to try to bridge. Unfortunately.

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