The Survival of Our Civilisation

The Survival of Our Civilisation

Space and time are interwoven. We cannot look out into space without looking back into time.

In our tenure of the Earth we have accumulated hereditary propensities for submission to leaders and hostility to outsiders, propensities for aggression and rituals, which place sometimes the survival of our species in some question. However, even if have accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage, we have also acquired a desire to learn from history, compassion for others, love for our children and soaring passionate intelligence, which are the tools for our survival and prosperity.

Today, our home planet is the planet of an emerging technical civilisation, struggling to avoid self-destruction, and this is the only religious idea that must prevail.

(Extract from The Rain, the famous SF novel by Elena and George B.)

Civilisation. Illustration by Elena