Poems and a Preface
tracing the love
that bends the long arc of history
toward intelligence
The culture of freedom, democracy and human rights is the heart of the revolution of our era creating an advanced civilization, more intelligent, moral and beautiful.
This reality is beyond the vision of modern philosophy based on the false premise that the default setting is hate because humans are fundamentally separate and evolved to compete against one another. But we aren’t and we didn’t.
It's an exciting and hopeful time to be alive.
Peace and prosperity are increasing as ever more people are allowed, enabled, inspired to make more decisions in their lives. People thinking more is good, right and beautiful because our thoughts and feelings evolved to mix together in the living thinking system that is all minds connected, talents not concentrated but dispersed, every person incompetent on their own, each and every one needed to add variety to the whole, creating a category leap in intelligence, grace and power far beyond what could evolve to exist in any one beast, completely dependent on everyone getting along, intelligence and morality joined in a common endeavor.
The challenge of our era is finding thousands of ways in complicated large scale modern life of unleashing human intelligence and nurturing our heritage with a clear-eyed recognition of it. Together our destiny is to wonder and speculate, create and explore, seek truth and solve the riddles of the universe. We all have a responsibility to engage with the wonder and joy of life, opening ourselves and our world to all voices. So rise above superiority to live equal with all, awaken to see the light in every pair of eyes, each one a unique shining facet of the most intelligent entity ever to arise.