Part of the renaissance that is the next level of putting ourselves into a social coherence can be learned from tribes. The temporal dimension of the essence of ancestors and Seven Generation thinking. Without that, we forget that our participation is truly fractal in Big Time and geography. (Religions and politics separate us with the delusion of everlasting life for ourselves and for our civilizations).

The only common component is the living actions of our human animal bodies in a physical environment that, until now, accommodated all of our stupidity and recovered. If we are to avoid breaking the links between ancestors and grandchildren, we have to fully embrace the concept that our primary purpose is to contribute more to our environment than we take. Whether we specialize and assign duties through communities or politics or technology is just logistics. The bottom line is that this is the first time in human history where we have to decide whether our species is intentional, suicidal or just stupid. Our future depends on how we accept our response ability to the living dirt beneath our feet.

Some think we need a new religion. Some think we need aliens to unite us. Some believe humanism (anthropocentrism) is the answer.

The truth is that starvation and collapse will soon enough present us with a mirror of our true selves.

The answer will be the most common question in all of human history:

"What's for dinner? "

Unless we ditch our competitive fanatical ignorance, the follow-up questions are going to be, "You gonna eat that?"

"Hand it over."

or simply just, "Bang".

We can talk about it and debate human nature until the cows are all dead, but in the end, basic human nature is only as good as the systems we build to fence ourselves away from the stuff we let marketers tell us that we think we should kill for.