The Hive Society by Vyg Fynbos
Enters modern manModern man ? You thought you were modern didn't you ? Wha ha ha ha, surprise surprise... you ain't seen nothing yet !
Humans are changing, but we are so busy surviving, working, having fun, sulking, buying..whatever it is we do, that we rarely take a moment to stand back, come to a halt and think about where we've been, where we are now, and where we are going.
Indulge me a moment and picture this in your mind, Planet earth rotating, ..zoom out, see the earth as if you are standing on the moon.. see how beautiful and big earth looks from the moon ? Now zoom out even more...zoom out further and further away..can you see how small the moon is compared to the earth ? ... zoom out.. out of our solar system.. all you see now is a star speckled blackdrop. (- hope you enjoyed the visualisation, and thank you)
Compared to the vastness of the universe, I would have problems seeing your speck with the strongest micro or telescope ever built. You are a nothing in the vastness of the cosmos, an organism that lives for a mere moment and then dies, the matter/stuff you were born of recycled back to the earth where it came from.
Now that you have some perspective, you may begin to realise the fantastic scope of life, and you may realise the futility of life, how absurd it all is, and that wasting your moment of life in unhappiness, regret, greed, war and hatred has been plainly put.. stupid of you.. now stop the tantrums and listen up.
Modern man
Modern man is man without the mental shackles of the wannebe god-complex, modern man is man the cyborg, man and machine, man the god. The change from the industrial revolution to the electronic revolution happened very quickly.
This computer age, internet, cyberspace is only the birth of the electronic revolution.
Humanity is rushing into the wonder world of micro electronic circuits nano-technology, genetic engineering...shortly the creation of enormous things from the minute/micro/small thing.
Enters the hive society
I see a clear pattern emerging, which is, we are doing more and more amazing things in smaller and smaller ways.
This indicates a pattern that humanity will follow for numerous years to come.
The birth of the hive society is at hand.
A society of humans that will live and adapt on a planet shrinking in earthspace as populations grow and resources are depleted.
Actual earthground is fast becoming too expensive which means more and more people will never own a home on ground, but live in apartments. Those families that do own homes and large estates on ground will become a minority eletist few in the near future.
The vast spaces of land that has not been populated yet, are vast spaces of desert or semi-desert, where crops cannot be grown, farming of livestock cannot be maintained due to various reasons, of which waterscarcity is the major reason.
Change in the biosphere
As the earth warms and weather patterns change, some geographical areas that are currently fertile may become desertlike and some deserts may become fertile land, balancing or unbalancing the status quo regarding livable areas, but our scientific predictions regarding this is not very clear, as the climatic patterns are subject to many factors.
The Hive Society is underway. Welcome to the Beginning.
