Mind Model and the Civilization Egregore

Civilizations come and go and the way the people of each solved the problem of life on Earth was reflected in their internal representation of the natural world. The way people lived in the western world just a few generations ago is quite different than today, obviously, so the way people lived prior to agriculture, or in the early days of cities is almost unimaginable.

One key factor that can provide context is energy storage and usage. For animals, and for animal man annual sunlight and its storage in the products of nature circumscribes almost all things a man would do. The highest density energy sources would be animals (as food or for work) and plants like trees, or their annual products, like seeds, fruits or vegetables. Minimal and easily available processing could convert those yet again to more potent forms of energy storage, like alcohol, or oils or rendered fats. A sophisticated, comfortable life could be built within the horizon of those energy sources. (See Primitive Technology blog and channel for examples)

All civilizations prior to ours scaled those energy sources to industrial levels and used agriculture to direct the flow of stored sunlight to human endeavors like war and monument building for psychopathic kings and pedo priests and their scam cults. Grain storage, for example, is an energy storage system. Several myth story arcs are entirely based on the agriculture cycle. The god Pluto (from which we get the word plutocracy) was a god of grain storage underground--where the dead are stored to rise again in the next season's planting.

Our civilization figured out how to use fossil fuels and nuclear power, electricity, magnetism, etc... The basis of our civilization is the idea that there's limitless power on tap 24/7. Fossil fuels are energy dense and allow relatively small machines to produce 10's or 100's of horsepower and lots of torque or force, consequently small numbers of men can do the work that hundreds of men or animals used to do.

So why the fuck do we work all year and do makework bullshit for most of our adult life? We retain the institutions of ancient Greece, Egypt or Babylon today. What if we did projects for a short part of the year instead of keeping corporate entities alive all the time? An incremental and ad hoc approach might allow people to evaluate their actions more clearly and see the unintended consequences, like pollution, more readily.

Imagining a new type of egregore can actually bring it and a new civilization into existence.