Humanity, graduated into Homo Sapiens hardly about 40000 years back. This is quite insignificant if we consider the timescale of Earth from its origin, less so of the Solar System, even less of the home Galaxy and literally a flicker when we consider the from the origin of this Universe.
If we consider the human history, the evolution has proceeded in an arithmetic progression. Only about 5000 years back man knew to organise himself in settlements and perhaps invented more than a wheel. Industrial Revolution is hardly 200 years old and Information Revolution, not more than 50 years old.
No one seems to have recorded the size of the global population during Indus Valley Civilisation, the commencement of the Biblical Era or even during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The organised effort in that direction cannot be more than a century old and within this, the population has doubled and tripled from where it was first counted.
Making a wild guess, it is difficult to put the size of the world population to be more than few millions, when Egyptians built pyramids and Indus citizens built cities. At the beginning of the industrial revolution may be the population was about a billion and today we are about 6.5 billion. For this kind of increase accompanied by advancement of civilisation, global information exchanges, education, research, storage and retrieval of knowledge etc., the rate of advancement of the frontiers of human progress, compared to the population base, in my opinion is certainly either lower than the past or equal. It doesn't seem to have increased dramatically. What could be the reason ?
A deep study of world history throws out a fact that always human beings have been following a pattern of brain capacities during various points in the timescale. The pattern has not varied much from then to now. It seems to be independent of the development of Science and Technology. It is this. If 100 human beings are born - out of them about 2 or 3 are Excellent (those who seek a purpose in life, which is neither materialistic nor self-centred, but to fulfill a quest within themselves, which they are born with, and pursue that with all their best abilities and efforts) about 90 are Mediocre (those who love their status-quo, feel no shame to be reaping the fruits of someone else's labour, do not see a need within themselves to contribute for the future of humanity, and infact, take all these with a self-righteousness, that is more forceful than that or the Excellent) and the balance 7 or 8 are simply Idiots, who do not matter in the scheme of things.
This pattern keeps repeating wherever you turn. The only difference between Indus Valley and today's world is that, the difference between the mediocrity and the excellent becomes a matter of debate as the mediocre have developed the art of masquerading.
It is the sparks thrown by the excellent over the time-scale that reached us where we are today. No doubt it is the combined physical effort of the mediocrity that enabled the physical development. Undoubtedly this is a world ruled by the mediocrity. All the systems are designed by the mediocre, for the mediocre and of the mediocre. Hence it produces and sustains mediocrity.
It can be immediately argued that if mediocrity rules, it would have been status-quo and not progress that would've resulted. Hold on ! the rule of the Universe is that nothing can be in status-quo and in the absence of progress, can only be degenerating or decaying. One needs inertial power even to maintain status-quo. It needs more power to reverse decay, maintain status-quo and to ensure progress. It is almost equivalent to swimming against the current of a river. Who have done it and who are doing it - it is the Excellent. But who rules this world, the Mediocre.
Imagine building up a giant clock that indicates the sum-total of human activity on any given day, week, month, decade or a century and also imagine how the 24 hours are spent and on what activities. I am sure, about 20 hours will be spent on mundane chores of sustaining the material life. Another 2 hours will be spent on securitising both internally and externally. Out of the remaining 2 hours spent on advance of human knowledge (this by itself is a very liberal estimate) I am sure not more than 5 minutes will be spent towards even thinking about human progress for tomorrow.
All the progress we had so far was achieved by the Excellent, despite the mediocre and not because of them.
At this rate, it will take several millennia for the humanity to take the next obvious step. What can be the next obvious step ? By design or by chance, Universe found a warm womb in this Solar System on Earth and through selective evolution chose Humanity to lead. Earth is our cocoon and the metamorphism into a butterfly and spreading the wings will be the next step. Man has to step out of this incubating Globe into the real terrains of this Universe. He has to explore, not just be peeping as he is doing right now. He has to expand his rule, relate with the other intelligences, and seed the way for the super-human to arrive. Obviously the next mega step that Humanity should take is inter-stellar travel.
Men have failed, defeated, weakened, fought, lost and degenerated - but Humanity has always sustained.
Is there a way to accelerate to the next step ? Is the next step by choice or by chance ? Is there anything that one has to do ? Yes, there is a way to accelerate to the next step - and the way is to shift the rule from the Mediocrtiy to the Excellent. Is it a choice ? No, It is a historical necessity and events will lead ultimately to that - however, a conscious choice can ensure a faster, smoother and an excellent journey, instead of a slower, tougher and a gloomy arrival over to the destination. Is there anything to be done ? Yes, the inevitable war between the Excellent and the Mediocrity should be expanded systematically towards a win by the Excellent.
Will this be a war of blood and flesh ? No ! It will be a war of brains. In the human time-scale it may take about even one millennium. But that war will advance the progress several millennia ahead. What will be the sign-post in the future that will announce the end of the war. It will be a day when, the ratios will reverse. It will be 90 out of 100 excellent, and the rest consisting of mediocre.
In any war, meant to win, there will be elaborate preparations, strategies, tactical moves and combats.
In any war, meant to win, there will be elaborate preparations, strategies, tactical moves and combats.
This blog will go into all of them as it grows in painstaking details. This is the first clarion call to be heard by those who matter and to bring the like-minded together.
I am awaiting the call to be responded to. I am sure and confident it will be !!
