D. Quinn - Book of the Damned part 2

Imagine a completely different kind of story from the one we're enacting. A story for the entire lifetime of a genus. The genus Homo. Think of an outline for such a story. Not three million years of nothingness, followed by an explosive flourishing so violent that it consumes the world in ten thousand years, followed by extinction. That's not a story for the lifetime of a genus. Imagine a different story entirely. A story for tens of millions of years. For hundreds of millions of years. A real story. A story to be enacted. A story whose enacting shapes the lives of those who enact it. A story whose enacting shapes the history of those who enact it. Now imagine that that's the story our ancestors were enacting. It had nothing to do with mastering the world. Nobody was trying to master the world. All of it was about something else.

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[dannyofthededd]

"astronomically speaking,the story didn't work out that well" 

[Bernd1964]

The way humans think and behave is to some degree a quality of our internal brain structure, which was formed in a long evolutionary process on Earth. Therefore mother nature sometimes speaks through our brains, especially if we don't act very rationally but spontaneously and emotionally. The fate of human history is determined by largely unknown forces within our minds. We should never overestimate our rationality. We know from ourselves only the tip of the iceberg, the rest is latent.