Sublime

Human nature is hunted and has fled into sanctuary.

As long ago as 1936, the prehistorian V. Gordon Childe wrote a book called Man Makes Himself.

humanity’s greatest asset, it has also been a curse on our existence, wreaking havoc on humankind via genocide, war, and other oppressive measures.)

What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.

Wells describes, he says: . . . the liberation of atomic energy on a large scale for industrial purposes, the development of atomic bombs, and a world war which was apparently fought by an alliance of England, France, and perhaps including America, against Germany and Austria, the powers located in the central part of Europe. He places this war in

The Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari argues that humans became the most powerful creatures on the planet because of our imagination, our ability to tell stories and to ask ‘what if?’35 What if we revived that capability, in great abundance, starting now?