THE FOUR STAGES OF HUMANITY
Stage one – Wild (Authentic) Human: Humans, as unique individuals in intimate relationship with other unique individuals, creatively accommodating the demands and opportunities of the natural and social environments they inhabit.
Stage two – Domesticated Human: Humans as a conquering and colonizing labor force organized according to hierarchically structured power relations and applied in ways specifically designed to propagate and intensify the power structures themselves.
Stage three – Mechanized Human: Humans as standardized and disposable servomechanisms in an intensely violent globally-expansive geopolitical machine.
Stage four – Nutritive Human: Culturally and psychologically homogenized humans as a digestible source of economic energy to fuel an insatiable planet-consuming leviathan.
