we are jerry-built on the Pleistocene
A few weeks back, at this salon Heidi and I started called Second Thought (a whole ‘nother post) I argued rather inarticulately that the great problems that face Humanity will never be solved unless we make up for the fact that we are living with prehistoric brains in post-modern times. We need to evolve our firmware, so to speak, to meet the challenges that 21st century living presents us.
In fact, I’ve posted about this idea before.
Face it, in evolutionary terms, we’re still basically cavemen at our cores. And here’s yet another independent voice from Science and Spirit making the same point. We are jerry-built on the Pleistocene. If Humanity stays that way, humanity will end that way.
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