(For example I note, with interest, how you have brought your long-standing interest in "attachment" and "separation" -- John Bowlby et al. -- into the discussion. A variety of ways our society has evolved have led to the partial displacement of the mother, that you note, by preschools and nannies, with who knows what impact on the way the child's heart and soul develop, having less of that ancestral experience of stably occupying that space from which "the baby/child uses the parent as a secure basis from which to explore the world.")
So, even without the inevitable "reign of the ways of power," brokenness would have entered the world with civilization due to various other obstacles that get in the way of decisions being made in wise ways to create Wholeness in the human world.
Despite all that, I do believe that a great deal of the essential nature of the evolution of civilization has the process described by the parable of the tribes as its source. The combination of the trauma coming out of the inevitable kinds of experience that the parable of the tribes exposes people to, and the shaping of societies so that they will make demands of people that compel them to be broken because those some of those demands are hostile to human needs and nature, have meant that this process has been a major determinant of the moral and spiritual heart of the human story.
It is the story of creatures caught in this trap of the reign of power, but also yearning for wholeness. Acting often in broken ways, but also yearning for wholeness and trying to build it into their lives and into the distressed world they live in.
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The Series- # 1-- A Better Human Story
- # 2-- How "the Good" Emerges Out of Evolution
- # 3-- The Sacred Space of Lovers
- #4-- Humankind's Perilous Step into Terra Incognita: The Rise of Civilization
- #5-- The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution
- #6-- The Pay-Off for Taking on this "Integrative Vision": Part I
- #7-- The Pay-Off for Taking on this "Integrative Vision": Part II
- #8-- Prepare for the Best
- #9- Understanding Evil
- #10- The Transmission of Patterns: Basic to Life, and to the Human World
- #11-- Humankind as Tragic Hero
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