THE PARADOX OF HISTORY: SOCIAL WOR(L)D CULTURES Vs TECHNOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC ECOSYSTEMS

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The constant use of biological and scientific analogies is the basic tool of study of History and economics in this work. Social evolution, ecosystem evolution is common to all species of the Universe. In the Universe it seems that an arrow of increasing social complexity exists between species: Protons socialize through strong forces and become atoms. Atoms socialize through forces of communication [¥-forces, gravitational forces] and become molecules. Molecules socialize through London and Van der Waal forces and become carbohydrates. Carbohydrates socialize through RNA orders and become cells. Cells socialize through nervous and blood systems and become organisms. That natural growth of complexity in the Universe makes us believe that by analogy, the same rules of social creation that occur at any level of reality should occur in history. To know those laws and manipulate them to the advantage of man should be the goal of human social scientists.

History is then the study of the 'body of human cells' extended in space and time, from the first till the last human being: as Medicine is the study of the 'body of DNA cells' extended in space and time, from the first DNA-cell till the last cell that disappears after the body has died.

History and Humanity in this book are parallel concepts, since the Time that humanity exists is the time that History lasts. Yet History is too extensive, to be studied without smaller units. So Historians divide the study of the human species into smaller pieces of History called civilizations.

 

Civilizations, cultures and eco[nomic]systems. Organisms of history

 

Bio-history and bio-economics study macro-human and macro-machine Organisms, 'economic and historic ecosystems,' in which there is a mixture of machines and human beings. What we call a civilization.

Civilizations in bio-history will be treated as small bodies of History, organisms subject to the processes of evolution, reproduction and extinction. Their advantage as a tool of analysis over total History for the researcher is clear. While History is still a body in the process of existence, many civilizations have completed their life-span and gone through the 3 Horizons or Ages, of any biological species: birth, expansion and reproduction of 'cellular tissue,' decadence and death... Yet since in each civilization we can see a small mirror of the existence of the entire body of History, we can understand why history might die, by studying civilizations which died in the past.

A civilization is a wave of 'similar' human minds and instruments which during a period of Time, share common goals, and possess similar languages, cultural customs, ideas, instruments, and social organizations. What we call the networks of energy and information of History. In that sense we define a civilization by two kinds of cellular species: instruments, mainly metal-species belonging to the economic ecosystem, and ideas, mainly art and word species belonging to the informative networks of human societies.

So we can distinguish two kind of organic civilizations according to the weight of those two cellular species. These are:

Eco[nomic]systems of metal, dominant in metal-species, guided by warriors and monetary information, whose aim is to reproduce machines, instruments and weapons.

On the other hand, cultures, historic ecosystems of carbolife are guided by verbal information [laws, religions, ethics]. Their aim is to reproduce humans, and human goods [food, nature, education, human sensorial arts, housing, etc.].

Even though both ecosystems are mixed, and most humans are unable to differentiate them, it is important to realize that 'Historic Cultures' and 'Eco[nomic]systems' are different organisms, sometimes symbiotic, sometimes opposed. Today 'Eco[nomic]systems' control cultures, and so we reproduce more machines than human goods; we obey monetary orders [wages, prices] instead of verbal orders; and our institutions and organizations [currency nations, supra-economical and military organizations] are eco[nomic]systems, while cultural organizations [religions, sensorial arts, gastronomy, literature, etc.], fade away, and merge into a simplified worldwide eco[nomic]system, submissive to prices and markets. Yet this is only a recent development. The dominance of Human Cultures over Metal eco[nomic]systems has been in fact the rule of Human history until very recently.

Cultures are social organisms. Their 'cellular units' are human minds and their Laws and Ethic mandates which are cloned in the human minds of History [believers], through knots of information [genius, prophets, books]. A sum of human minds acting under the same informative commands is a culture [Buddhism, or Communism, or Christianity] based on the same verbal mandates, that the cells of the culture obey. From that core of 'verbal ideas' the culture will originate a series of customs regarding the way energy, human goods, instruments, are used. Cultures are the fundamental Organism of Human History. With the arrival of metal networks of energy [warrior hordes] and metal information [trader routes], cultures became mixed with eco[nomic]systems, shaping civilizations. We will look at history as a game between two herds, two ecosystems: herds of metal-species and herds of human species. Those herds evolve and reproduce and communicate under the same laws that guide any body or ecosystem.

Both systems integrate within a civilization. However even if the development of eco[nomic]systems and cultures overlaps, both ecosystems have different life-spans, not coincidental in time. For example, the Christian culture dominates in Europe between 330 AD [beginning of Christian Rome] till the French Revolution [when Christian verbal information is substituted by digital, scientific and economical information]. Yet in that period we have several Eco[nomic]systems, based on different weapons and currencies. The eco[nomic]system of cavalry weapons and bartering [lower Roman empire and middle ages]; the eco[nomic]system of coins and land cannons [renaissance]; and the eco[nomic]system of paper-money and sea gunboats [Anglo-Saxon economies]. We can talk then of three civilizations in as much as the eco[nomic]system of the Christian culture changes: the Middle Age civilization, the Renaissance, and the Protestant civilization.

Thus we differentiate between 2 kinds of civilizations for whom we use different names:

 

1. Human  or Historic  orWord  Civilizations, or cultures; dominant in culture, in art, verbal ideas and human, nature-based goods [artisany, agriculture].

2. Economic  or Metal  Civilizations, or Nations, dominant in eco[nomic]systems, in monetary and military power.

 

Cultures made of mind cells, like organic beings made of cellular clones, are born, fruit of a single 'cellular unit' or Prophet with his ideas for a better wor[l]d. Then his ideas multiply in the minds of believers and in sacred texts, in networks of information called Gods, until a religion or legal system organizes a network of information or energy, called a culture of the Word.

However in eco[nomic]systems it is an instrument, normally a weapon, what starts the Metal-civilization when it is discovered, reproduced by a horde of warriors, and expanded worldwide by those warriors, who become the Top Predator 'elite' class of the civilization, praying on the 'body-ecosystem' of a 'culture'. So, German cavalry warriors, preyed on the Christian civilization, carving it into 'pieces' called nations, that they ruled since the Middle Ages. The Buddhist civilization was destroyed by Hindi castes of warriors, that also divided that civilization in military states, and so on...

It is then obvious that word civilizations were dominant in the first ages of History, when there was little metal. Metal civilizations are dominant in the last ages of human History when human prophets and artists, and their networks of information [ideas, art works] and energy [Nature, farming concerns] became extinct, degraded and substituted by money and machine networks, the physiological systems of Metal-civilization.

 

2. Human goods Vs metal-goods. The goods of history and economics

 

History is an organism made of human cells, all born of a first human verbal being, around 140.000 years ago [mithocondrial Eve], able to speak, who multiplied into multiple cells, distended in Space and Time, sustained by the skeleton of the mother earth, and put together through verbal networks of information and carbolife networks of human goods.

As such history is a macro-cosmic organism parallel to any organism, which has evolved into complex shapes.

For that reason the evolution of history has gone through several stages of social evolution similar to those of the organisms of nature.

- A first age [Paleolithic] of simple forms similar to the first forms of carbolife [bacteria, or individual, single cells]. We call those men, Homo bacteria, of minimal social bondage, who lived in small groups, similar to a herd of bacteria.

- With the arrival of the Neolithic, however men evolved into more complex social organisms similar to the first organic animals ruled by energy/blood networks, with minimal nervous development. So men gathered around river/energy networks and associated themselves in tribes to obtain food.

- Yet as social evolution progressed, the first multi-cellular organisms evolved into complex birds and mammals where the nervous/informative system ruled the entire organism.

So happened in history where with the arrival of verbal religions based in ethics and love, human masses became organized in civilizations in which the laws inspired on those religions ruled the social organism. It was the age of the Homo organicus, the summit of human social organism, achieved when 3 social religions, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, considered that all men were part of the body of History and could live in peace as cells of the body of God=History, the human-kind. Yet that organism of history based in love and social harmony was then 'infected' by a new species, a short of strong germ, or bacterium, that poisoned the organism and killed the social networks of the organisms of history.

Such germs, were called weapons, made of metal, who destroyed the social ethics and harmony of human organisms, destroying civilizations. So mankind has been unable to organize into an evolved global social organism, because those germs, weapons have destroyed our nervous system, and corrupted it.

In the same manner a sick body is infected by leukemia that kills the nervous system and causes the cells of the body to multiply the virus, hordes of warriors destroyed the Neolithic social organisms, and the religious social organisms and men returned to the primitive stages of simple societies ruled by energy networks [economic societies] and even further to the level of Homo bacteria, in which each social human is an isolated individual protected by weapons, searching for their own individual energy for him and his minimal social unit, the reproductive family.

This final age of history means the decomposition of the body of history, and it is similar to the death of any social organism that regresses to the cellular level. It has taken place in the past millennia, in the age of metals.

However this did not mean the end of social evolution on Earth, sine in the same manner that a body in decomposition hosts the creation of new organisms, insects, and cells of the predator, that feed on the death body, the social bodies of human civilizations have become energy to develop a new kind of organism, the Economic organism of metal-species, weapons, machines and money.

As the economic organism grew over the human organism, it also developed a new nervous network, now made of a metal-species of information, money, instead of words and laws.

So the economic organism started a parallel social evolution from individual societies into complex nervous societies based in money, which corresponded to the age of destruction of social verbal, ethic networks.

This economic organism grew and finally 2 decades ago reached planetary scale.

It is the world Bio-economy studied in other books of this author [Bio-economics: the evolution of machines].

We will in this book study that process, with special emphasis in the first ages of history, since the 'death' of history, parallel to the creation of the economic organism has no longer human beings as main characters, but machines and financial networks.

 

Planets of flesh, planets of metal

 

Once the hypothesis of 2 organisms in History is firmly established, a number of parallels between human social structures and body structures confirm the fact that History is regulated by such networks of energy and information. So we will not study individuals of history, but the systems of communication and distribution of energy and information among human cells. A medical doctor does not study individual cells, but their nervous-informative, blood-energetic, and endocrine-reproductive networks... What are those networks in cultures?

Humans are reproduced and evolve socially through sex and love - feelings based on verbal communication of our memories and selves [I think therefore I am]. While books, art [visual perception] and literature [verbal perception], evolve the informative senses of man, and reproduce wor[l]d ideas in the minds of believers, causing the informative networks of cultures. On the other hand, the production of human goods [housing, welfare, agriculture, etc.], is the energy system that maintains and allows the survival of the cells of the body of History [humanity] in their multiple organic tissues [cultures].

The body of Human History is better understood through such networks of information and energy: an ecosystem of cultural rites of communication and reproduction of human goods, which allows men to obtain energy, and information, to reproduce, evolve and refine their senses. This has been the nature of human History throughout most of its existence. The Human side of history that the doctors of History [politicians] should develop: A verbal brain of laws, ethics, and a Paradise of Human Goods, based on carbolife species...

Economic societies, and their two main networks, informative money and machines and weapons, are a different organism than cultural societies with his verbal networks and carbolife species [human beings and agricultural species]. They are made of two different atomic species, metal and carbon, and they use different energy. We talk of two ecosystems, a carbolife world, and a metal-machine world.

In the next graph, we distinguish the goods of both different ecosystems:

Planets of flesh are planets of human goods.

Planets of metal are economic planets.

Human goods  should be promoted by all means, since they 'increase the perception' of human senses, and hence the total volume of human existence, and the survival of the species. Yet since the arrival of economic ecosystems the opposite occurs: metal goods substitute human goods that become scarce.

Since both kind of systems are different ecosystems.

One system has become the dominant system of reproduction of goods. It is the economic system, the organism of the economy ruled by monetary information.

The other is a system based in the language of human power, verbal thought, and it is the nervous system of our nations:

LANGUAGE:       MATHEMATICS                                    WORDS

DOMINANT SPECIES:  MACHINES.                              HUMANS

 

 

History and economics: two languages, two disciplines

 

It is then clear that the two 'languages of social humans' are obviously words and money.

Men organize themselves with words, orders, legal, ethic, or based on feelings. Men also organize themselves with 'monetary orders', prices and salaries that provoke actions in human beings, making them consumers and workers.

Since those two languages are the essential 'neuronal networks' of history, traditionally human societies have been studied by two different sciences, each one specialized in one of those languages, history specialized in studying 'human verbal societies' ruled by verbal orders.  And economics which study ecosystems ruled by money, by financial orders, orders of work and consume. The division of the analysis of Historic societies in 2 disciplines have thus a clear methodological reason, which however is unreal, when considering the existence of mankind.

Since we are both elements of the 'historic verbal organism', and elements of the 'financial organism'. Thus we should consider their study together, since their relationship is so deep, that there is no way, to differentiate them, and make a relevant analysis of any of both subjects.

Only considering both the organisms directed by verbal orders, and those directed by financial orders as a single system, we will be able to understand how nations works, and what we should do to improve them.

Both systems are different, history is the study of human social organisms, based in a language of social communication called words. Economics however are a system that is based in a different language of social communication: money. To understand their difference, the best biological Homology is comparing both systems to organisms of energy and information.

It is then very easily to see in what the economic and the historic system differ:

The dominant, nervous systems of history are words, and their systems of distribution [books, press, conversations, social groups].

While the 'informative network of the Metal-Earth', money, is made of soft metals, such as gold, copper and silver; and latter evolved into coins, paper-money, stocks, e-money - the economic language.

So as the Earth changes ecosystems, money substitutes words as the code of human information. This again is typical of any similar process of change.

When a virus attacks a cell, first  of all it substitutes the genetic information of the cell with its genetic code, its genetic language, and through the new language it gives new orders to the system.

In the ecosystem of history we can indeed talk of a process of substitution of the ethic networks of verbal thought by a new language, the digital language of money, and scientific instruments, a language in metal-support. And that change of informative ecosystems that put to work humans as the virus code makes cells work for the virus, meant that under monetary orders, humans no longer fought to create a world to their image and resemblance, but a world made to the image and resemblance of metal-money, and all other metal-products [weapons, scientific machines].

The main problem of our societies is that we have constructed a 'wrong organism', one in which the network systems of machines dominate the network systems of mankind, ethic words, laws, and human energy..

If we were able to make both systems work for the advantage of mankind, we will be evolving human history.

To do so however we need first to differentiate the 'cells' of both ecosystems, a difficult task since as we have seen, both 'cells' and 'products' are carried by the same networks, the blood-economical networks, and 'political networks' of nations, that produce equally lethal goods and human goods, good laws, and warfare...

Our first task will be to differentiate those two types of goods, so we can at least now what are the proper goods of a well-functioning human nation.

 

The sickness of societies: lethal goods

 

The analysis of societies as organisms, has an interesting point to it.

The existence of sickness in social organisms, of degenerative processes that bring civilizations into war, can be diagnosed from a clinical point of view.

Not only because their causes are known - the ill-functioning of the energy and information systems of the organism - but because we have 'previous clinical cases' to study, in the different civilizations that have preceded our civilization.

Indeed, already Toynbee realized that every civilization he was studying had died by war. War was the cause of death of social organisms, and could in that sense be compared to an infection of cellular germs, -in the case of war weapons - able to extinguish the cells of the social organism.

In other books about organisms of history [Bio-History: The Extinction of life], I study in depth the process of war, and how in most cases wars took place when a certain weapon had been reproduced in great numbers. The existence of those weapons, sooner or latter brings the organism to collapse, because weapons are finally used.

Weapons however were associated to 'powerful, dominant nations', and so wealth and war were strangely related. In the peak of his power, Spain was at war with half of the world. So was England in the XIX century, and Germany in the XX century.

Since weapons are the most expensive items of society, it also turns out that those nations at war, or with massive war power are the wealthiest of each historic age.

All those facts seem to me contradictory. Why wealth was opposite to health?

If the human social organism, that we might call history, divided in smaller social organisms, nations and civilizations, was a normal organism like other organisms of history, the process of war was an anomaly. I could not understand why to become wealthy implied to become unhealthy as a nation.

It took me a certain time to realize, that we had to change our definitions of wealth, and distinguish as I have made on the introduction two types of wealth, of property, of goods.

Those goods which I termed human goods, that were healthy to the social organism, and gave also wealth to their owners [from housing to food, from arts to education], and those goods which were unhealthy to the human organism, and despite bringing wealth, destroyed the social behavior and life of their owners [from weapons to digital machines such as TVs, that teach us violence, and waste our time, or computers that substitute and atrophy the use of our brain, no longer able to spell or calculate without a machine.]

The key to understand the degenerative processes of nations, and history was that distinction between 2 kind of goods. Goods which were natural to the social organism of History, and goods which were unnatural, poisonous to the social organism.

When I divided goods in those two categories, searching for what differentiated them, I realized of a very peculiar property of 'lethal goods', that in one way or another harmed the organisms of history. They were all made of metal, of a different substance to that of which mankind and most human goods were made.

Most human goods were 'carbolife goods' with a natural affinity to the molecular and cellular systems of our body. Food, education and health care, [which was delivered by other human beings], free time, peace, love, fruit of a proper education, and a proper job, tourism, the arts, textiles [often with a carbolife-based plant as its raw material], were mostly carbolife species.

While lethal goods, such as weapons were 'lineal systems of metal', metal able to process energy.

Could we talk of two different ecosystems, that of history made of carbolife goods, and the new ecosystem, born with the age of metals, as two different ecosystems, that sometimes were symbiotic, sometimes destroyed each other?

The most dangerous new machines, robots, and smart weapons were also made of metal, they were in fact metal-organisms.

The machines that were substituting workers, and taking control of our information, TVs, cameras and computers, could be indeed compared to 'metal-minds', chip-brains, and TV-eyes.

In that sense we could talk of 'lethal goods' as germs, that first reproduce in great numbers, and then interact with human beings, killing them [weapons] or substituting them as human workers.

Such lethal machines are indeed products that a non-corrupted political system, should control. Yet a government submissive to the 'brainless' behavior of the blood system accepts every product; so it allows the existence of war, and the process of substitution of human cells by machines in our companies.

The existence of lethal goods that should not be 'valued positively' by economists and politicians, since they decrease the overall health of mankind is evident throughout history, and yet without a biological analysis of those goods, we cannot understand why they harm and destroy countries despite their 'economic value'. Such task of control of 'lethal goods' obviously belongs to the political-informative system of the nations.

When such systems are submissive to the blood systems of the organisms, the reproduction of lethal goods cannot be controlled, and as in any sickness of the organism, it takes the resources for the reproduction of basic human goods the social body needs. In this manner prices for basic human goods [food, oil, housing, health care] grow, while lethal goods are multiplied, and promoted by the submissive political system that allows the mother-companies of those goods, to reproduce them without limit. Such corrupted social organisms, tend to degenerate into war...

In that sense you have to consider machines, as 'organic systems of energy and information' that can substitute and compete with the equivalent systems of mankind and animal life. Bodies such as cars, planes, ships and railroads, competed, and substituted cows, and horses, that reduced numbers to a 10%, when they no longer were used to transport merchandise. Machine-brains such as radio-ears, cameras-eyes, and chip=brains, join to metal-bodies in robots compete with human workers, and displace us, as they reproduce in growing numbers. The loss of jobs and lives to those 'lethal goods', either directly [weapons] and indirectly [robots, software], is clearly the main cause of sickness, social upheaval and war, in human organisms.

So the unlimited reproduction of weapons and robots, is indeed a biological danger for the worker-citizens of a nation. Only laws can prevent their massive reproduction from taking place in the nearby future [since the most advanced robots are weapons, and both fuel the evolution of the other species]. A certain pattern started to appear. There was in the Earth two kind of goods, of species, goods of carbolife origin, and goods of metal. The first species tend to be good to mankind, the second, the 'fruits of the tree of science, of the tree of technology', were sometimes symbiotic to man, sometimes the cause of the extinction and degeneration of civilizations.

If a cellular level this was evident: machines and humans are different species with different needs. It also became evident that at the level of networks of energy and information both species had different requirements. Machines fed on vapor, oil, electricity, which were not food for human beings, but rather poisoned our environment, and could be lethal in contact with our bodies. As the network systems of energy of machines spread, they caused the degradation and destruction of those network systems of the Carbo-Earth that natural life, and human beings required [rivers, fresh air, and water, agricultural fields].

The 'informative networks' of both ecosystems were also different. The networks of human abiding information were verbal networks, of ethic mandates [religions] or legal mandates [governments], able to create sophisticated collective laws of behavior, that moved human masses, as nervous impulses move masses of human cells.

However the system of reproduction, evolution and use of machines, the information of machines was not delivered verbally, but it was delivered by a 'metal-system of information' called money. This was indeed perhaps the biggest prove of the existence of two ecosystems on the Earth, evolving towards two different type of social organisms. On the one hand a biological, natural language of information, words, ruled human beings. On the other hand a biological, metal-language of information, money, ruled machines, and company-mothers that reproduced them. While both systems interacted, it was clear that they differed in many ways.

What it was more telling of the 'sickness of history', the economic system of valuation and information, money, the metal-system, had taken over the legal, nervous system of mankind, controlling the laws and behavior of human beings, through prices and salaries.

Money which was a metal-language of valuation, had substituted our verbal ethic languages [laws and religion], and now commanded our behavior. The financial system, the 'red blood system' of money had substituted our nervous system, the government in the control of our society. Yet money was also made of metal, first gold, silver and copper, now electronic money in the brain of metal-minds, of computers.

It then occurred to me, that perhaps we were in a world with two ecosystems, that were evolving together towards social form, and yet, were not the same ecosystem, and catered not for the same species, despite their obvious relationships of symbiosis.

I realized that I had to learn more about ecosystems, and organisms, to clarify what was the real nature of human History. When I analyzed similar cases in nature I came to the conclusion, that the organism of History, the Carbo-Earth, ruled by human beings, was confronting in the past centuries since the beginning of the 'Industrial evolution of machines' a new ecosystem, that was developing fast over the ecosystem of History, a world of machines, made of metal.

How could we call that new ecosystem? Obviously the Metal-Earth.

It was possible that at the very end of history [since the age of metal had only lasted 5000 years], our social ecosystem, the organism of mankind had been conquered and substituted by another organic ecosystem, the ecosystem of the metal-kind, a World of Economic nature, ruled by money and machines, by metal-systems of energy and information?

3. The Paradox of History.  Animetals  Vs human beings

 

Economics Vs History: two different organic systems

 

Shall we describe the Metal-Earth, the bio-economy, as a new organic ecosystem, different from nature, could we say that the Earth is 'mutating', since the beginning of metal evolution, from carbolife into a new world of Metal, where carbolife species were endangered? The more I look at history, I realized that this is indeed the case.  Since metal arrived to human civilizations, Nature has suffered, and so have the human verbal networks that before organized historical societies.

In the last graphs of social organisms we have defined the historic and economic organism.  You might be surprised by the fact that we have described them as two different entities. Since most people do talk of a 'nation', including both the 'historic organism', and the economic ecosystem, it might seem proper to describe both as part of a single 'social organism'.

Yet that would go against the facts of history, the way in which both organic ecosystems have evolved, and the essential fact, that the networks of energy and information of historic ecosystems [classic civilizations], and economic ecosystems [based in financial networks, and machines], are different.

In that sense it is much more appropriate to talk of a change of ecosystems on the Earth, from historic to eco[nomic]systems, instead of a single reality.

Indeed. The very essence of the processes we witness in our daily life today, is that process of Earth's change, from a historic ecosystem, based in networks of carbolife [river veins, farming energy, human verbal information of ethic and religious nature], to an ecosystem based in networks of metalife [road veins, electric energy for machines, information carried by networks of metal-minds].

To ignore this fact, is to ignore the very same nature of our present world.

Regardless of your human or animal condition, as a carbolife being you have the same structure and the same need for organic energy.

That organic energy is provided by the networks of 'Gaia', the carbolife Earth, which is the ecosystem/network organism in which every animal, plant and human being, during 99% of our existence as a species, have survived.

It is fundamental to grasp that fact: mankind has existed as a verbal brain for around 100.000 years; as a biped body, for a few million years.

Yet the econo[mic]system of machines that today controls our ecosystem has existed only for 400 years, for 200 years as the dominant ecosystem, for 2 decades as a 'global organism' ruled by 'financial networks of electronic money'.

What this means is that the human social organism has been for 99% of its existence a carbolife organism, based in carbolife networks of energy and visual/verbal networks of information.

It is not correct to consider that the machine civilization is the 'human way of existence'. On the contrary, on the life and existence of mankind, the machine ecosystem existed only the last days of our life.

When we consider some of the side effects of this new ecosystem, such as endemic war, and the existence of species like computers, robots, and automated weapons that attack directly our supremacy as top predator species on the Earth; when we consider the brief period in which those machines have existed, and the way in which they have 'infected' and controlled the other two ecosystems [agricultural societies, and animal life], the entire process seems more like a process of infection and death.

Organisms die in such a manner. Suddenly a new species, a new germ is introduced in the organism, it multiplies massively, it displaces the cells of the body, its informative systems [genetic orders] substitute the DNA of those cells, as 'scientific information' has substituted our 'verbal, natural languages of information'. Finally the entire cells of the body work for the invading species, till the body transforms itself and it is born as a new species. You become lion in the stomach of the hunter, you become a mass of insects, flying away from your decaying body.

The arrival of machines certainly means so for Nature, which after 3000 million years is suffering now a massive collapse in a few minutes of relative life, as its cellular elements, are substituted by machines...

Yet what about the human Earth?

Again the symbiotism between men and machines is not so clear. In many ways it seems more a 'sickness', a process of 'extinction', an 'old age', that a new era for the humankind. What is clear is that the I Earth, the Earth of carbolife is no longer dominant. It is becoming extinct.

To affirm that the economic ecosystem does not displace a different ecosystem, is to deny the tragedy of many nations, such as African and South-American nations, which are changing ecosystems, and suffering massive processes of extinction and degradation of those species who were adapted to the 'agricultural, historic ecosystems - from human beings, to animal life, that suffers hunger, sickness and extinction. We will consider now those facts from the historic perspective of the absolute Law that causes those confrontations, the paradox of History.

 

Metal species against human species

 

Weapons 'extinguish' life, and 'energize' the evolution and reproduction of machines which increases in war. On the other hand, men are killed by war. We can express this in a formula, the Paradox of History:

 

Max. war=Max. metal evolution=Max. Human devolution=Min Human Goods

 

In biological terms we say that metal energy preys on human energy, the bodies of cellular men. Does money also prey on verbal information? Does money corrupt ideologies of verbal thought? It is obvious that money and the species it helps to reproduce [weapons, metal-communicators such as TVs] prey on and substitute verbal ethics, and religions of love... Ethics and Economics have always been opposed.  In History metal-species created by man, prey on Human verbal networks and cultures.

Since in the Earth there have been always two different ecosystems, and ways of understanding History, the way of Human masters, and the way of metal masters [scientists, warriors and money-makers] that worship metal. Let us resume that fight, in a wave with two sides, the side of Human goods and Human masters, and the side of Metal goods and metal masters, 'animetals', biological species that are half human, half metal, because they rely of weapons, money and metal-minds to 'be'. Since, History confronts two species, with different goals of survival: men versus metal-species and the Metal masters that back them.

 

Animetals. Top predators of history

 

It is now time to introduce the 'human element' of economic ecosystems, the animetal. In the evolutionary process of the Earth, we can consider that the arrival of metal created a new, special kind of symbiotic organism, made of two very different substances: an animetal, mixture of a human brain or human body, and a Metal-mind or metal-body. Animetals, are symbiotic organisms made of a metal-species plus a human being. The human being acts as the 'dominant, living element' of the process. For example a railroad is an animetal organism composed of an energy organ, an 'iron horse' [body] + an informative organ, a human driver, and a Company-mother.

As a result of that symbiosis and the capacity of metal to carry energy and information, to increase our informative and energetic power, animetals have through history evolved metal. To that aim, they have killed, destroyed, enslaved, and degraded all other human beings; they have promoted war, and destroyed the nature ecosystem... They have indeed applied to men the law they should have applied to iron: the law of hate to the other species.

The Paradox of History is a biological paradox  between two ecosystems, the economic ecosystem made of animetals and machines, and the historic and nature ecosystem, made of carbolife, and social human beings. There have been many ways to explain the paradox of history. Authors have talked of social classes, [animetals Vs human beings] of a fight between good and bad people, of the fight between the first world [economic nations] and the third world [agricultural nations], of superior races [animetals] Vs inferior species [human beings].

The best way to explain the paradox of history is to talk of the confrontation between two different organic ecosystems, the ecosystem of history ruled by verbal information, rich in human goods, and symbiotic to nature, the world of agricultural civilizations [organism of history]; and the ecosystem of economics ruled by monetary information, rich in metallic goods, and symbiotic to machines, the world of cities and industrial civilizations.

4. The wave of History, a chronology of the Paradox of History

 

There have been always two different ecosystems, and ways of understanding History, the way of Human masters, and the way of metal masters [scientists, warriors and money-makers] that worship metal. Let us resume that fight, in a wave with two sides, the side of Human goods and Human masters, and the side of Metal goods and metal masters, 'animetals', biological species that are half human, half metal, because they rely of weapons, money and metal-minds to 'be'.

Since, History confronts two species, with different goals of survival: men versus metal-species and the Animetals that back them:

In the graph, History confronts 2 species, with different goals of survival: life based cultures and human goods [life goods] Vs animetal cultures and metal-species [warriors of lineal metal, traders of cyclical metal and scientists of complex metal]:

 

 

 

Historic, word, human cultures, based in words and human goods:

Economic Ecosystems, Modern Nations, Metal Civilizations

 

 

Why the ecosystem of money has won most of the battles of the previous graph?

The answer is: because unlike words which have hardly evolved since the great age of prophets, money has expanded its forms constantly, it has multiplied its species, its numbers, its quantities, and its capacity to value everything on Earth, till a point in which the hyper abundance of money and those species it reproduces in greater number, machines and weapons, defeated any of the human world...

In that sense there has been a parallel selection of languages, to the constant selection by death that animetals established with their cult to war...

On the left side we see the people of the 'Human Earth', the people of word cultures. On the right side we see the people of the 'Metal-Earth', the animetals of military and monetary cultures.

 

MEN OF THE HUMAN EARTH    ANIMETALS OF THE METAL EARTH      

Paradise                                                                   Tree of Science

Abel, the farmer                                                Cain, the smith...

 

For people on the left man is the center of the Universe, and the social organism of man, history, the organism that should rule the Earth.

For animetals, the people of the right, machines and money are the supreme good, a good given by god to mankind. So they feel justified to abuse mankind with them.

Such is the message of their main ideologies that we call Go[l]d religions, such as Calvinism and economics [Calvin said that money was the intelligence of god; Adam Smith, founder of economics said, that 'money was the invisible hand of god'.]

Such is the message of their nationalistic and racist ideologies that justify war...

Those two kind of people are the 'real authors' of both planets. They are the characters of a transcendental play, History Vs Economics, the fight developed throughout all civilizations between those who helped the human Earth, and those who helped machines.

The heroic fight of Human social beings, verbal prophets, artists and civilizations based in human goods, against animetals, money and weapons, the absurdity of the wars, and Holocausts caused by Animetals, throughout History, their ideologies of metal-power, that push the organism of history towards extinction are studied in depth, in this book. They are indeed the main reason of the extinction of History; caused not by the human species, or even a certain race, but by metal-species, and a civilization associated to metal, which preyed over human societies, extinguished them, promoted the evolution of metal, weapons, money and machines, and finally has spread all over the Earth, to all human races and ecosystems.

 

Man changed languages of power from verbal to digital thought.    

 

In the previous graph we can see the constant opposition across history between two modes of perceiving man and the desirable future of our species: those who favor metal as the ruler of society, and those who favor words as the informative mean to create a better world.

For verbal prophets history should not evolve machines and money, but human languages. This is a logical conclusion. Our species exists as such since perhaps 150.000 years without real changes of morphology.  In that date the evolution of the foreHead probably related to the birth and evolution of verbal worlds, created man. What defines man as such is 'I think therefore I am', our words, not our machines. The languages of man give man power to control and manipulate reality. They give him his 'spiritual reality', 'his temporal information', his linguistic, intuitive knowledge of the Universe. Verbal knowledge, the virtual worlds and the memory of man written with words is the best definition of humankind as an informative species. The evolution of verbal thought is what evolves History.

Because verbal thought is the biological language of man, it is verbal thought which truly explains to humankind what reality is all about.

When verbal thought left way to digital information, man became confused, powerless. In that sense we distinguish 3 clear linguistic historic ages, each one belonging to a 'language of human behavior':

 

 

 

- Age of 'biological languages,' of genetic thought [racial age of tribes].

- The age of verbal thought [age of prophets, from the birth of man until ±1600]

- The age of mathematical thought [age of companies and science, from +1600]

 

Followed by a final age no longer of human nature, since now the language exists in machines. It is

- The age of digital thought [age of digital images, and 'Metal minds,' or XX c.].

 

Each of those ages has given man a different vision of reality. Languages are the mirrors that give us the vision of reality. If you smell the universe you will have a different vision of reality that if you talk about the Universe or you see it, or you describe it mathematically. We could also consider 4 ages of human knowledge, as we change the languages of 'truth' with whom we describe the Universe.

- The genetic age of racial ideologies, the most primitive of all ages, similar to an 'animal age,' still pervading in nationalistic and tribal religions.

- The verbal age of religious, social thought, that encompasses all humanity [Buddhism, Islam, Christianity]

Those languages were the 'nervous networks' that allowed the social evolution of mankind, into cultures, and vice versa, when they disappeared, and digital languages imposed, those digital languages allowed the creation of the Metal-earth. It was the:

- Mathematical age of pricing and the scientific method, in which words become submissive to metal-senses [clocks and telescopes] and monetary orders [companies that control political governments], making human rights inferior to metal rights [rights of science, property and Companies]. Followed by:

- The digital age of metal minds, which moves knowledge outside the realm of man, into metal minds [computers, TVs] that now are the new 'valuators' of truth. This final age witnesses the decadence of human minds, ignorant of the human will and reality, living in a fiction world, manufactured by the 'linguistic virtual reality' of TVs and computers. It is the Human Baroque. The third age of history.

 

Since the change of languages and the change of dominant species on Earth, caused by the predominance of new digital languages that favor machines, are the main cause of the death of the History organism. In that sense we can talk of 3 ages of History, related to those  linguistic ages.  Let us see them in History.

5. The 3 ages of History

 

If we consider the entire wave of Metal-History as a single civilization also with 3 periods, its young, epic age, its classic, humanistic age, and its decadent, industrial age, we can talk of the Bronze and first iron empires of Asia, as the age of epic war. The period of European infantry, and Asian cavalry [from Greece to renascence] as the age of maturity of history. The age of the industrial evolution, as the age of extinction of history.

Each of those ages is divided by a clear discontinuum of evolution of the two functions of metal, energy-metal or weapons, and informative-metal or money.

Man adapts himself to those changes, which are symbiotic and help the evolution of our societies, in a first age, but as metal reproduces in greater numbers, it suffocates the evolution of human history and the human mind, till with the arrival of science, the human mind becomes obsolete, and men become worshippers of the minds of machines.

In the next graph, we talk of 3 clear discontinuums in the evolution of metal, that mark 3 ages in the parallel civilizations of mankind:

 

- YOUTH OF HISTORY: The Age of Wor[l]ds.  From 150.000 BC, to 500 BC.

Man has been for most of history in harmony with nature, during the Paleolithic and the Neolithic. It has been ruled by words.

Even when metal was discovered, for most of its existence, since copper appeared, words, and verbal religions were able to control metal and so religious thought also dominated.

It was the age of Bronze weapons, and bartering. Since money is still scarce, in the form of bars of metal, words still are the main language of communication of mankind. Writing becomes sacred. However bronze and then iron give enormous power to warriors that end controlling all Neolithic societies. So at the end of the youth of history, Priests are displaced from power. Women become systematically repressed. Gods become warrior Gods, without compassion. It is the age of Mesopotamic Empires, the age of Asia.

The age of verbal thought reaches its baroque age, towards -500 BC, in the work of Lao Tse, Buddha, Confucius and Socrates, that reach the height of human verbal understanding of the Universe. Yet a new language of information - coins appears, and human verbal thought looses power.

 

- MATURITY OF HISTORY: The Age of coins. [-500 BC, 1600 AD]

It is the Age of Iron weapons and coins. Mankind still rules, and learns how to control with ethic behavior, the power of weapons. Yet Money starts to be a common language of power, and challenges verbal ethics. Words are displaced by money as the language that controls the acts of human societies. This means that verbal thought and ethics is no longer the center of the human mind, but humans become shallow in their perception of verbal-temporal reality. The human intelligence displaces to the eye. So art becomes realistic [Greek Art] and mathematics appears as a new language of understanding of the Universe. Both coin accountancy and Mathematics come together, in the Asian Greek coast where the first monetary empires and mathematicians appear. After the brief return to an ethic age, in the Middle ages, the renaissance again imposes money as the language of social power.

 

- OLD AGE OF HISTORY. The Age of machines.  [1600 AD till extinction].

It is the third age of mankind, and the first age of the new predator species that displace us, the machine. It is the age of science, of digital languages, of massive reproduction of money, the language of information of machines, now in the form of paper-money and electronic money. Wor[]ds become obsolete. There is so much money that all things can receive monetary values, and human verbal values are no longer effective. There are so many weapons, due to the industrial reproduction of them by company-mothers, that ethics and social power become obsolete, and national armies control directly [dictatorships] or indirectly through weapon-companies [democracies] our societies. The objective of mankind is to evolve machines through acts of work=reproduction of machines, and consume=test and evolution of machines. The decadence of mankind is hidden because paradoxically as humans loose interest in verbal thought, in a non-fiction logic understanding of reality,  companies of machines can convince and indoctrinate man easily. Fiction literature dominates this age. Men no longer understand the meaning of social survival, of truth, and the organic nature of our Universe...

 

Let us consider a more sophisticated graph, that shows the preying relationships between the different species and professions of the 3 ages of History: