Andy Schmookler discusses keeping the central challenges always before our eyes

Dr. Andy Schmookler in the continuation of his series “A Better Human Story,” expands on two of his articles that present the challenges civilization must deal with continually.

Andy Schmookler continues his quest

From Andy’s essay.

From such seemingly inevitable implications of a creature taking the step onto the path of civilization (shown in #2, “What Rules This World?”), it is possible to “derive” (as the mathematicians say) what is – ultimately – the Central Challenge facing any species that takes that step: Will our species be able to order our civilization well enough – and soon enough – to prevent our civilization’s destroying itself?

Civilization Inevitably Creates Two Dangerous Kinds of Disorder.

“Order our civilization…” It is evident why the issue of “Order vs. Disorder” will be central to understanding the challenge facing any creature’s civilization, the reason being that:

• Order is central to all of Life’s systems—from the intricacy of the arrangement of molecules in the cell, to the structure of the organism, to the overall flows of the biosphere. Good order is central to the Wholeness that Life manifestly depends on.

And because

• Disorder is an inevitable consequence of the breakthrough to civilization. Indeed, there are two kinds of disorder that the emergence of Civilization would inevitably generate, each of them introducing Brokenness into the overarching systems of any creature’s civilization.

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