The third stage. Evolution of social systems
If we accept the thesis about the completion of evolution on the lower floors of the Biosphere after the transition of its maximum tension to the upper floors, then at a certain stage the Biosphere reached the limit of the possibility of development and growth of protein organisms. For animals, this is the size of 40 meters (no creature has crossed this boundary in the entire history of the Biosphere). Plants were able to reach a much larger boundary: trees - for 100 meters, lianas and algae - for 200 meters.
However, further development in the direction of increasing the size of multicellular protein systems turned out to be inefficient. So, Nature chose another way to continue evolution. Starting from some stage, it went the way of evolution of biocenoses, the minimum stable sizes of which start right after the threshold of maximum possible sizes for multicellular biosystems (hundreds of meters and more).
It can be PROPOSED that this transition from the development of the second large-scale interval of the Biosphere to the development of the third interval began even before the appearance of man. According to some considerations, it can be attributed to the period of 10...15 million years ago, when modern biocenoses began to form from the homogeneous environment of rain forests, which had covered the earth's surface with a uniform carpet for tens of millions of years. The diversity of biocenoses emerged as a result of cooling, drying of the atmosphere, glaciation, and the appearance of savannahs and other natural-climatic zones.
In this case, we may be observing the last final stage of Biosphere evolution. After the construction of the Noosphere, life will go beyond the Earth, into the Cosmos, and the evolutionary focus will automatically move up the S-axis to the cosmic scale. On Earth, a completely different reality will appear - the Anthroposphere, which will be largely regulated and managed meaningfully by man. If all this is so, then the appearance of man marks the beginning of the realization of the next stage - the stage of creation of the TOTAL system of the Noosphere. The Noosphere should harmoniously include, firstly, all biocenosis systems, and secondly, it should be as internally perfectly organized as the human organism, for example, is perfect. After all, within the organism there are no wars of annihilation between the liver, kidneys, and heart. Inside the organism, if it is healthy, the laws of musical, universal harmony reign 1.
It is well known that within the human community for the last five thousand years no harmony has been achieved. There have been continuous wars and conflicts between societies of all levels, from families to empires.
If we approach all these events purely emotionally, the history of humanity development starts to make us sick. But if you turn on the logical apparatus, then, in the author's opinion, partly all that happened was the result of the rapid evolution of biosystems on the scale of the third interval. The author is also convinced that when this evolution is over, such forms of social organization of the human community will be found, which will allow the society to function as harmoniously as any healthy organism functions.
EMPHASIS ON THE THIRD LARGE-SCALE FOCUS OF EVOLUTION SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGES OUR WHOLE ATTITUDE TO WHAT IS HAPPENING ON EARTH, IN PARTICULAR, TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE HUMAN COMMUNITY.
First, it becomes clear why, using the organism of the first man as a basis for the realization of plans for the next stage of evolution. Nature sacrificed many of its previous achievements. As a result, man turned out to be biologically much less reliable than many similar organisms.
There is no need to expound this thesis extensively here; it has been done long enough and fully in many works. In particular, the upright position of man leads to many problems with the spine, skeleton, and organs. Physically man is weaker than many of his neighbors on the scale shelf, for example, monkeys.
The reason is simple: after all, in order to create a social stratum of being, it was necessary to prepare special "elements" for this purpose. From the animal base, such "elements" were created, which were intended to fulfill very, very specific functions, far from a simple struggle for survival. However, everything has to be paid for. The fact that human nature was loaded with functions and tasks not peculiar to the animal organism had to be paid for by weakening the purely animal properties of the organism.
So, man was created by Nature to fulfill a new task, which is beyond the power of any other species on Earth - the task to continue the ESTATHETE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOSYSTEMS, increasing their size by orders of magnitude.
Such "biosystems" are social structures. Throughout the history of civilization, both the number of social structures and their size have been increasing.
At the same time, there was a process of increasing the internal complexity of the structure of social systems. This thesis also, perhaps, does not require proof. Putting these facts among other facts of evolution of systems in the Universe, one can't help coming to the conclusion that the focus of evolutionary development of the Biosphere is currently concentrated at the social level. The Universe is currently creating the next stage of systems evolution in the field of social space with the help and by means of man. Consequently, it is not man as a separate individual that is important and interesting for Nature at present, but HUMANITY as an increasingly complex structure of much larger scales. Man as a biological system is the OPERATOR OF THE EVOLUTION OF NATURE in this structure. If he violates all the laws of God, he becomes clay, a material to be neglected.
"And do not think to say within yourselves, 'Our father is Abraham,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones." New Testament, Matthew 3:9.
It is possible that the first people in the biological sense were even much more perfect than the man of today.
It is true that the average life expectancy of an individual has increased. However, this is most likely a consequence of a more perfect social structure than the biological one.
Therefore, one may not argue with some theories according to which man as an individual not only does not evolve over time, but even loses gradually many very useful properties. Even if this is indeed true, it only supports the conclusion that the evolutionary focus is at the present moment in history in an entirely different area of scale - where the social sphere of life is evolving. Just as many unicellular organisms once entered the more evolved environment of multicellular systems and simplified, specialized, and lost a number of their primary properties, so humans as individuals may lose a number of their primary properties as they become more and more densely integrated into the social organism.
Everything has to be paid for. It is impossible to create a more complex system without tweaking the primary elements, just as it is impossible to build a pyramid without hewing the stones.
Once again, let us return to the worldview significance of the above conclusion. It shows that from the point of view of the Universe, there is no task on the Earth at present more important for all its inhabitants without exception than the development of population forms of life in their PREDICTABLE form - SOCIAL. Therefore, the life of all individuals on Earth, including humans, is subordinated to a task more important than the preservation and development of their individual power and diversity, it is subordinated to the task of development of the metasystemic level for organisms - social. If this process is manageable (or at least has a logic of development), then the task of all mankind is to move to its CONSCIOUS IMPLEMENTATION.
FURTHER REASONING
Herein lies the TRAGIC UNEXPLORED GOAL. Every individual on Earth strives, by virtue of the instinct of preservation and reproduction, for individual well-being and self-preservation. In this, he is certainly right, for it is impossible not to obey the perfect laws, which are laid down by Nature as a result of several billion years of evolution.
But if resources are limited, some people tend to take them away from others. Overlaid on this desire to prolong the lineage leads to a tendency to create endless (individual, family, clan) stocks of resources that could provide security for descendants for many generations to come.
This, by the way, makes man very different from other animals, which do not have the ability to create unlimited reserves. Man often displays the instinct of a social predator - to take everything possible from other people and appropriate it for himself.
Because of this circumstance and the underdeveloped social construction of society, people who were not highly spiritual, but adequately organized, most often found themselves in power. These people were not so perfect from the point of view of absolute harmony, but they were more appropriate to the underdeveloped social organism they ruled than spiritual and intellectual leaders. Hence the phrase, "My kingdom is not of this world."
However, the goal for man as an element of the Biosphere and the Universe has changed fundamentally, and this former logic is in sharp contradiction with the logic of the next stage of the evolution of life on Earth. Nature has set before man an external goal, which she has never before set before any of her species - to continue evolution on new floors of the large-scale ladder of the Universe, to continue evolution on the social level. This can only be achieved by increasing the size of social systems and complicating their internal organization. In this case, contradictions arise between the old and new ways of human behavior.
First, increasing the size of social systems is impossible without increasing their internal population.
Recall the biblical "Be fruitful and multiply!"
Consequently, if as a bio-individual each person can strive to destroy other people - competitors for resources, then as a socio-individual each person should strive to increase the number of other people on Earth.
Secondly, the task of increasing the complexity of the internal structure of social systems is in diametric contradiction with the aspiration, laid down by the animal prehistory of man, to the personal absolute power of the leader in the pack.
The organismal EGO (commands to it are sent by two instincts: preservation and procreation) of man tends to simplify the system of power to the utmost, unifying its elements to the position of cogs.
The external social goal sets before the individual the opposite task - to achieve maximum perfection of the internal structure of interactions in the society, and this requires an increase in the variety of "elements", and here with "cogs" nothing complicated can be created.
So, already in these two examples, we see that man is in a very difficult and internally conflicting position. All his genetic experience, all billions of years of previous organismal evolution push him to one model of behavior, and the task set before him by the Biosphere leads him to the opposite model of behavior.
In ego behavior, there is no insidiousness of dark forces, but the inertia of the old, through which - in the struggle with oneself, with one's animal instinct - a new tendency breaks through, a new man is BORN A HUMAN OF A NEW FORMATION - A MAN 0F CONSCIOUSNESS borN.. Modern man is the arena of this struggle. Yes, man has been very "lucky": he has fallen on the fracture of two global stages of evolution of life on Earth. If the first stage lasted for billions of years, the second one has just begun. It turned out that everything perfectly suitable for the animal world is often completely unsuitable for the human world.
Nature, considering such a difficult position of man in the evolutionary process, compensated him for this damage:
- has completely subjugated the entire biosphere;
- has made it possible to derive pleasure from entirely intangible sources: spiritual, intellectual, etc.;
- and even reinforced his difficult role with the possibility of sexual pleasure regardless of the need for procreation.
For most animals, sexual intercourse is a rare event that occurs once or twice a year, during the mating season. Even in rabbits, which are known to breed at a tremendous rate, the female does not let the male near her after conception has occurred. Humans, on the other hand, have always had the possibility of almost uninterrupted sexual pleasure. Perhaps this is Nature's compensation for population (social) stresses, to which humans are subjected to a much greater extent than any other animal species.
So, one of the most important differences between man and animal is that while the animal world was created by the Biosphere for the sake of evolutionary development of individuals, for the sake of biological evolution, the human world (for the first time in the history of the Biosphere) was created for the sake of transferring the center of evolution to the social environment. Thus, evolution with the help of man continues its movement upward in the large-scale structure of the Universe.
Apparently, from the point of view of world culture, there is nothing new in our conclusion. Some (if not all) world religions place the values of the human community much higher than individual values. Since the author is familiar with only one of them - the Christian religion - this statement is not in doubt with regard to this religion.
The kingdom of God is the primary goal of any Christian. Everything else must be subordinated to this primary goal. The whole Gospel is permeated with this basic thought, although the question of the possibility of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth is not simple.
The ministers of the church understand perfectly well that it is almost impossible to make our world perfect. Therefore, from their point of view, attempts to build Paradise on Earth are doomed in advance and only discredit the very idea of the Kingdom of God.
The last example is the attempt to build a communist "paradise" in the USSR. However, system analysis shows that not everything is so hopeless: understanding moral laws on a logical level can lead society to such a state that most people realize that it is much more comfortable and pleasant to LIVE REGULARLY. All the more so because the requirement to obey moral laws is equal to the requirement to obey safety rules in such a complex enterprise as life.
The author is internally convinced that before joining the community of other civilizations, mankind will still have to go through a "quarantine period" (according to my calculations - this is the III millennium), when it is necessary to establish a harmonious order in the socio- and biospheric structure of the Earth.
Earlier we showed that etheric (ideal) and matter (material) parts of the Universe complement each other, without one of them the existence of the other is also impossible - they are just different overtone layers of the integral universal harmonious being.
So, if we ask ourselves what is the value of the conclusions drawn here, the author believes: that they, without contradicting global values, are obtained in a strictly logical way within the framework of the proposed model.
I hope that thanks to this, science gets an additional basis for justifying the ethical principles of existence. After all, science (not to be confused with scientists) has always been fundamentally outside ethics, and outside moral values, because it could not find these principles in the general (not only human) laws of nature. Now there is an opportunity to substantiate ethical and moral principles, based on the model of the Universe, built by natural scientific methods.
The social structure of the Noosphere is being formed at present. It is formed by a network of complex relationships, which is established in the process of society development between people and their associations. The sociosphere is a three-component structure, which includes: society, the technosphere, and the agricultural sphere. The latter appeared in the Neolithic Age, while the technosphere has always accompanied proto-humans, from the first spear, fire, and stone; regulated by laws, habits, traditions, and rules. The structure of interaction between individuals and their associations. It also develops according to certain laws, becoming more and more complex.
If we draw a parallel between the development of the technosphere and society, it is possible that in the field of social laws, too, human creativity only repeats what nature has already invented earlier.
In fact, is not a primitive society like an amoeba that seeks a space with a larger feeding ground? Is it a coincidence that capitalist society in its first stage of development resembles a predatory beast that preys on the weaker members of the animal kingdom?
This topic is so grandiose that we cannot even touch upon it in this paper. Here we will only note that the structure of social relations has evolved from a null-dimensional structure
(primitive communal society) through one-dimensional structure (slave society), two-dimensional structure (feudal society), three-dimensional structure (capitalist society), and came close to four-dimensional structure (new society). This issue was partially discussed in the author's work "Russia in the XXI century" 2.
These examples once again show that the main task of the human community is not to satisfy the needs of each of its members individually, but to create a new global bio-techno-social system that would occupy higher levels on the scale ladder of nature than man himself. In other words, the task of the human community is the development and improvement of the community itself. The nearest goal is the creation of a new kind of intelligent system on Earth - the Noosphere.
Here the meaning of the fact that in thirty to fifty years the number of people on Earth may reach the order of ten billion (\(10^{10}\)), which corresponds to the value of one of the fundamental dimensionless constants of the Universe, is revealed in a new way. Let us remind again that this is the order of the number of neurons in the human brain. Maybe, when mankind crosses this cherished numerical boundary, it will finally turn from an unconscious amoeba-like system into a reasonable thinking whole, into a kind of Solaris? And will it pass from collective-conscious existence to collective-conscious one?
FURTHER REASONING
If this is true, if humanity has indeed come close for the first time in history to a very important threshold of change beyond which quantitative growth will lead to a NEW QUALITY OF ALL CIVILIZATION, then the difficulties that humanity has encountered on the threshold of this TRANSITION are understandable. Humanity has only a few billion more to grow to reach the magical quantitative threshold that will allow it to transform into a NEW STATE.
When this step was only a few decades away, all the forces of the old, all the inertial tendencies, all the laws of the billion-year animal existence of the biological basis of mankind began to resist. The old always resists the new, sensing its impending secondary nature. Most likely, the new conscious humanity will no longer need many of the laws that the animal world of the Biosphere lives by. These laws will either be discarded into the past, as a spent stage is discarded by a rocket going out into space, or subordinated to higher laws. There is no point in regretting this, just as there is no point in cursing these old laws by which life on Earth evolved for billions of years. They were as justified as they were necessary to maintain equilibrium in the rapid forward movement. Man could not discard all the laws of the animal world at once.
Thus, a child who is just learning to walk cannot immediately stop crawling on all fours. Yes, mankind, like a child, stood up many times, made trial steps, then fell and returned to crawling on all fours, and fell again and again. And who knows whether at the turn of the millennium it has learned to walk firmly on its feet, straightened up in all its HUGE EVOLUTIONAL GROWTH, or whether it still has to stumble and fall several times. It is necessary to understand that in any case, the farewell to childhood, with onesies and diapers is inevitable, the transition to a new state of life in society is inevitable - purely human, therefore, reasonable, because the first thing that distinguishes man from animal is reason.
In recent years, mystical literature has been widely distributed in Russia, and schools of psychism, healing, and other unconventional movements have begun to appear. As a rule, many schools and groups fall out of ordinary social life, creating their closed inner world. Their main distinguishing characteristic is a strict dependence on a teacher (healer, seer, preacher, etc.), i.e. on a single strong personality who possesses extraordinary abilities (knowledge, possibilities...). The demonstration of these superpowers strikes the imagination of students and listeners, and since they are all promised the mastery of the same superpowers, they begin to follow the leader (teacher) in many matters of life almost unquestioningly.
Moreover, literature began to appear, in which it is stated that in ancient times (even before the Egyptian civilization) on the Earth there was a society of Atlanteans (Hyperboreans, etc.), able to fly, move heavy stones with their eyes, travel to other worlds and so on.
As we have written, there is a distinction in terms of scale hierarchy between the psychophysical impact of an individual strong personality and the social impact.
This difference consists, apparently, of the fact that the former operates on a much smaller scale, i.e. the psychophysical "field" is scale-local, while the social field is scale-global. That is why the former can be used only by small groups of priests, and the latter by the whole mankind. Otherwise, all the extraordinary psychophysical possibilities, which from time to time appear brightly in rare representatives of mankind, would be fixed in society as a result of natural selection, and they would be possessed by everyone.
Since this does not happen, there are two explanations. The first of them is religious: God, having given man extraordinary abilities in the beginning, took them away for his sins. The second explanation is scientific: natural selection did not lead to the consolidation of amazing properties in society because there is no human evolution, but only regression of man as a species.
Both explanations do not satisfy me, so I tried to find a third one, based on the discovered regularity of moving the focus of evolution along the S-axis. Its meaning is that potentially every person is a magician and wizard endowed with incredible psychophysical power, but since the main task is to build a harmonious population, social scale level, this power of people turns out to be excessive. Perhaps, after reaching a certain level of social development, these reserves will be revealed, but they will be subordinated to the HARMONIC SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
In any case, the author wants to believe it. So far the Lord allows only isolated examples of such power, giving it only to a very limited number of people on Earth. By doing so, He shows that mankind has a reserve that has not yet been opened. But by showing, He does not allow its mass utilization. Just as children are shown a fire from afar, but are not allowed to use matches, so we are shown "miracles" from afar, but are not given matches, so that "children" do not turn individual beacons of fires into the glow of an all-consuming social fire.
Hence a very important CONCLUSION: the level of power of mankind (as well as of each individual person) is REGULATED first of all by the LEVEL OF HIS SOCIAL MILLENNESS.
By the way, this concerns not only the regulation of psychophysical forces, but also the forces of nature, which mankind manages to master. The author, for example, is deeply convinced that as soon as it is possible to create a harmonious noospheric community, immediately scientists will be able to discover and master the inexhaustible source of etheric energy.
Another theme that takes on a new connotation in connection with the hypothesis of moving the focus of evolution from the point \(10^{2}\) cm to the point \(10^{7}\) cm is the relation of the thinking and moral individual to the "always imperfect" society.
God created man in His image perfect and put in his soul all the laws of harmony of the Universe, deviation from which any man can sense by the alarming signal of conscience. He set a similar task before man: to create an equally perfect social organism on Earth - "SOCIUM". Man had to start from scratch. He had to build social systems, starting with the simplest and most primitive examples, although he was not left without a clue and without a plan. The idea of the Temple is within each of us, the way to it is in religious teachings. Is the preaching of love enough? What about justice? With natural selection (competition) and with the exhaustion of resources?
Therefore, even though the vast majority of people on the planet belong to one or another world religion, the social structure of society is far from the ideal system, far from harmony and perfection. Hence wars, prisons, mafia, and other troubles. The man himself pays for this imperfection and has to live inside this imperfect structure and obey it in many respects because it is a CONTROLLING METASYSTEM for him. Thus a paradoxical situation is created: the most perfect creation of Nature - man builds for himself a social "dwelling" much less perfect than himself. Moreover, he builds a "dwelling" that constantly deforms his inner harmonious world.
Naturally, the simpler a social construct is, the simpler its managers - people in power - should be. Since the social system has never achieved harmonious perfection in the history of mankind, so the people who are more adapted to this imperfection have always been in power. Therefore, spiritual and intellectual leaders of all times and peoples have always been in opposition to power, often in conflict with it, always criticizing it, always dissatisfied with it.
Thus, at one of the social poles, there is a system of power always adapted to a particular stage of development and therefore imperfect from the point of view of ethical norms, and at the other pole of the social system there is spiritual power. The latter is far removed from the material power, because it should carry in itself the chamber tone of pure harmonic perfection, which is inherent in every human being from birth and which must be preserved under any system of power.
We see that the tasks of temporal power and spiritual power are very different. The former serves actual time, the latter serves eternity. Intellectuals flounder between these two poles, trying to improve worldly power, trying to build a system of relationships in society that would be closer to the spiritual Temple.
So, the PARADOX of the SITUATION is that the less perfect social system dominates over the more perfect individual structure of each person. It would be like if fences were made of the latest computers. And although the inner world of man is more harmonious and perfect than the outer, social world, the social world is the first on the list of priorities of Nature's construction, because it is the next floor, the next level of creation. Therefore, the social world is potentially stronger than the inner world, the world of the individual, but at present it is less perfect simply because it is in the process of construction.
There is the ONLY GLOBAL EXIT from this fundamental contradiction - the creation of a social world as perfect as the spiritual world. If this succeeds, there will be a great resonance of the two large-scale levels of humanity's development, which will lead to its unprecedented flourishing. After all, at present the lion's share of the internal energy of all people and the lion's share of the external energy of all mankind is spent on overcoming social contradictions. The entire history of civilization testifies to this very fact.
There is no need to prove this thesis. Let us recall at least that in the entire history of civilization there were only a few days when there were no wars somewhere.
Note it is unrealistic to solve the problems of social structure only by methods and techniques peculiar to the inner world of man because the principle of large-scale discrepancy between the two levels comes into force. It is useless to simply call: "Guys, let's live friendly!" Such appeals do not affect the social world precisely because they are taken from a more perfect but lower level of interactions. Social problems can only be cured by social methods.
Once in an imperfect social system, each person's harmonious world becomes distorted as he or she interacts with it. For many people, the only salvation in this case is religion, which allows a person to remember - i.e. to remember his or her divine essence. Then man begins to behave in some situations contrary to animal instincts, contrary to social rules, for example, sacrificing to his neighbor.
Religion, understood as a reciprocal connection with the Creator, is indispensable for every person, no matter how educated he or she is, because it keeps him or her in touch with the Eternal, with that which cannot be understood by reason and logic. An attempt to build a perfect world without constant connection with God is doomed to failure. In any case, such an experiment in the twentieth century in Russia was put very seriously and with extremely high costs.
The negative result is obvious. But it is naive to trust in the solution of all problems only with the help of religion. The two-thousand-year experience of Christianity has shown this more than clearly.
CHRIST in his sermons gave an IDEAL ETHALON OF RELATIONSHIPS among men, but from that time to the present day there has not been a single nation or state that has faithfully and strictly followed all of his commandments. Does this prove the "unreality" and "detachment" from reality of the doctrine he left behind? Certainly not, just as a trough dug on the site of a future building does not prove the unreality of the architect's plan. Certainly, if this trough has to be dug by hundreds of generations of people, then, dying in it, many people ask in anxiety: "Will this building promised by our architect ever be built?"
What can you do if the construction project requires time several orders of magnitude longer than the life expectancy of a single person. There is no time machine to fly to the future and make sure that everything is not in vain. But there is a way of faith and a way of scientific comprehension of regularities of society development. Both ways allow us to see a distant goal and, having rolled up our sleeves, to take up the shovel and pickaxe again.
Yes, society at all times has been far from the ideals of the inner world of man. However, ideals are a plan, a project of the future world of people, and the history of society is a construction site with all its problems. As long as we live in these social "intermediate" constructions, we have to put up with their shortcomings. Immediately introducing all the ideal laws of existence is like bringing expensive furniture into a building that is not even covered with a roof yet.
Terrible, for example, is the role of the executioner in society, who is obliged to execute criminals according to the verdict of the court, terrible is the role of the wardens in prisons, who lock living people in cage-chambers.
What would happen if tomorrow all the executioners, wardens, and tax collectors gave up their jobs? Would the world become a better place? Obviously, anarchy will come, the fruits of which the Russian people have already experienced many times and have seen that bad order is still better than any disorder. Therefore, the teachings of Christ should be accepted as the Way, as the Goal, as a Beacon in the world of social imperfection.
Since every human being, created perfectly in the image and likeness of God, as he grows up and immerses in the imperfect social world becomes distorted in its original basis, and goes further and further away from the ideal harmony of the Universe, the connection with God is necessary all the time, it is this connection that allows us to feel the harmony of this world. This feeling can be realized in the social reality only by walking the thorny path of step-by-step IMPROVEMENT of the social world, its difficult REVOLUTION.
If we look at this problem from the point of view of the ideas developed above about moving the evolutionary focus along the S-axis, then the PERFORMANCE OF HUMAN NATURE GIVEN FROM GOD, IT IS NECESSARY TO TRANSFER IT TO A HIGHER RUNG OF THE LADDER OF NATURE, IT IS NECESSARY TO BUILD AN EQUALLY PERFECT SOCIAL SYSTEM - "THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH".
This is not a utopia, but the main task facing humanity as a whole and each of us individually. Try to evade it, and you will be sent for melting down as a useless element for the great universal process, as construction waste.
Let us repeat: this construction cannot be completed in one human lifetime. This construction has its own higher plan, which we are hardly even well aware of. There are many stages in this plan, and at each stage, as in ordinary construction, adequate materials, techniques and mechanisms must be used. We cannot, however, transfer the methods of laying a foundation to the stage of building a roof or finishing work. This construction requires from each of us very concrete and specific work at each of the stages - precise actualization in time of each site. It does not allow treading on the ground, and does not allow inertia in methods and techniques. What was good yesterday, when laying the foundation, is no longer needed today, when erecting the walls.
If some of the human builders do not understand this and try to keep everything unchanged, they are removed from the construction site. People who try to impose finishing works on everyone at the moment when the building frame itself is not yet built are also removed from the construction site.
These analogies are good in that they allow us to understand why even the most perfect social systems created in the past have deteriorated and disappeared. They have fulfilled their role in a work that has been going on for thousands of years and will end, at least not tomorrow, but at best in 1,000 years.