Ishmael also reminds him that humans are only one member of the community of life, but Alan figures that Mother Culture says we won’t find the law there because it wouldn’t apply to humans. He eventually guesses the behavior of humans but Ishmael reminds him that, believe it or not, humans are not the only species on earth. Ishmael asks Alan where he would look to find laws about how to live and he stumbles a little. But they had to realize these laws first. Once they were clear, it was much easier to build planes. They didn’t invent them and those laws weren’t new – but no one had spelled them out yet or understood them. They needed a theory how to fly and for that they needed to discover the laws of aerodynamics. Ishmael starts by pointing out that the first Aeronauts, people who tried to find a way for humans to fly, were discussing if there were any laws to discover to know how to fly. I’m not sure how much of a “secret” this is anymore, but I still like that part because it goes beyond what we think is there, uncovering what is right in front of our eyes.Īlan is skeptical that they will find something, that there is such a secret. But Ishmael promised to tell a different story, a story about knowledge of having a way to live which we deny even exists.
That we are working through a constantly progressing development which makes us better and better until humans, the top of the species, will be able to control everything. Last time, we arrived at the end of the myth we tell ourselves about the origin of mankind.
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