In the roughly 4 billion years that known life has existed, it's only in the past 100 that one life form…

In the roughly 4 billion years that known life has existed, it's only in the past 100 that one life form believed it determined its own destiny. The Greeks called that hubris. Nearly everything in our individual and collective lives is outside our control. This MATTERS. 1/4

The intensity of our imitative team rivalries as we hurtle towards a mimetic crisis blinds us to the meaninglessness of what we're doing. Hubris always blinds. We want to win these rivalries, to be right, to be victorious. We can't resist that. 2/4

Everything we fight over will be determined by forces outside our control. By reality itself. 'And yet it moves', hey Galileo. That should unite us. Reality will happily kill all of us. Every tiny 'political' thing through to huge climate things, is not ours to decide. 3/4

Reality will determine the outcomes. It couldn't care less about us. The material realities of existence will decide our fates. Now we just have to re-imagine a human life that understands that. Everything else is hot air. A battle for provisional, meaningless status. /end