We
are everything biology is, plus technology, language, politics,
philosophy, art, so forth and so on. So suddenly human beings become
important, not mere cosmic witnesses, to a meaningless cosmos, but the
cutting edge of a cosmos that glories in order and is moving towards
higher states of order and at the present moment, we are the carriers,
once it was the volcanic processes that shape this planet, once it was
the life of the early oceans, once it was the great dinosaurs, but today
Humanity represents the cutting edge of complexity and this process of
moving towards complexifacation. What is mans purpose?
To
advance and preserve novelty, this is an ethical position, it means you
don’t replace rainforests with pastures, you don’t censor books, you
don’t lean on people to make gender choices different from yours. No, the purpose of being
a human is to complexify reality even more, to hand on a more diverse, more complicated, more multifaceted seeking universe to our children. Terence McKenna ~