You wrote, "There is a global desire or clearly felt rupture, to transcend current civilization." Counter, there is so much irony that the longer this stumbling global civilization continues, the more difficult it will be for our progeny to survive on a damaged biosphere with less carrying capacity. Although I don't share your optimism for any kind of classless society emerging except as an aberration (after all even chickens have a "pecking order") one hopes the fairness of the village will replace a world where the richest man in history wants to negotiate a cool $1 trillion in the next seven years presumably because he adds so much value.
"don't share your optimism for any kind of classless society emerging" - perhaps because you maybe in love with modernity already at the "top" of the current order. Yet nothing is forever we know that well. As for this, "pecking order" - it was TS Ebbe who observed, the hens pecking each other to achieve some "top spot". Once the feeding and pairing is done, no Chicken or Cock, is at any "top spot". Hence, Chicken do not behave like human beings do. We must not confuse such observation with our devotion to power and corresponding greed.
You wrote, "There is a global desire or clearly felt rupture, to transcend current civilization." Counter, there is so much irony that the longer this stumbling global civilization continues, the more difficult it will be for our progeny to survive on a damaged biosphere with less carrying capacity. Although I don't share your optimism for any kind of classless society emerging except as an aberration (after all even chickens have a "pecking order") one hopes the fairness of the village will replace a world where the richest man in history wants to negotiate a cool $1 trillion in the next seven years presumably because he adds so much value.
"don't share your optimism for any kind of classless society emerging" - perhaps because you maybe in love with modernity already at the "top" of the current order. Yet nothing is forever we know that well. As for this, "pecking order" - it was TS Ebbe who observed, the hens pecking each other to achieve some "top spot". Once the feeding and pairing is done, no Chicken or Cock, is at any "top spot". Hence, Chicken do not behave like human beings do. We must not confuse such observation with our devotion to power and corresponding greed.