Publisher's Synopsis
As we continue to consider historical, cultural, sociological, political, and psychological subjects and topics, analyzing, synthesizing, studying, hypothesizing and drawing conclusions, we could imagine in a sort of background scenario something similar to what follows: In some undetermined and seemingly vacillating future a civilization from somewhere else in the Cosmos landing on Earth will likely report to their home base that: "We have discovered a last civilization consisting of a species divided into many cultures and sub-cultures, which a few hundred years after discovering it had an ice cap in a place it called Antarctica (i.e., discovered in 1819 on an Earth calendar) among its other recent and most basic discoveries, continued to arm itself with weapons of mass destruction, in hypnotic states of fear and dread of everything while trembling before the mysteries contained in the Cosmos and in the minds of other humans like them ... and in the midst of its evolution chose to self-destroy rather than face reality as it really is". A report with a headline to their home base might perhaps be summed up as: "A planet of fools purposely destroyed itself, insanely and purposefully leaving its precious oasis to insects, bacteria and viruses".So, let us face the issue! The Earth is indeed a marvelous oasis meant for us in the midst of another wise total and immediate death for us all outside its delicate and porous spherical wall. It ought to astound us all still as to how extremely insignificant we are in a Cosmic context, how ephemeral is our abode, and how urgent is the need to preserve it. And yet we do nothing about it apart some exceptionally insignificant, ritualized, and extremely minor modifications and fake rectifications in a very few localities wherein a semblance of concern is demanded from the politically correct crowd. Until very recently in our human history about 99% of us struggled to live one more day in brutal conditions, in an atmosphere of fear of the next moment, of being eaten alive by a superior predator, experienced difficulties in foraging and finding food, and always searched secure shelter in states we could nowadays characterized as general poverty and on the edge of starvation. And all the while one can easily assume, as we persisted as a species in forms of continuing angst and unending questioning of an environment we could not control and a sky that seem to govern us, while constantly accumulating strings of situations, procedures, events, trials, circumstances, conditions, measures, dealings, actions, settings, surroundings, transactions, activities, arrangements, contacts, communications, etc., demanded we rationalize our way through in the course of our existence and this cumulatively from one generation to the next.This no doubt at first triggered and then started the growth of our cognitive powers and a level of adaptation unequaled by all other sentient beings on our planet to the point that our species now rules this planet. And yet, we are, both, as living biological and psychological entities, easily hurt, easily maimed, and easily killed. So, what are we doing combating each other to the death with such a fragile body and within a most delicate environment precariously supporting us for the moment?Are we insane a species at the moment?Are we blind to the enigmatic cataclysm to com