OUR HISTORY and THE LAST WHY

from incredible conception to credible collapse

The original post was rewritten, and posted on November 1, 2026.

Apparently before the beginning there was a void. Scientists think there was a big bang about 14 billion years ago that created the material of the universe. From it some time later Nature began conceiving and filling the earth with life. We don’t know how or why. One conception became the ‘fetus’ of humanity; and thus our history began. 1

Like all conceptions our forebears were gifted a quota of natural activity and inspired by Nature to “reach out to the limits of their capacities, to others and to Nature’s God.” Being under Nature’s rule they had to engage in this essential, self-creative, natural  activity. With it they created our present physical form and acquired the natural intelligence needed to survive. Since by Nature, individuals are unique and have common natural intelligence, our predecessors engaged in their natural activity on parallel paths. So, until 200K years ago our history was characterized by ongoing self-creation and peace. 2

By 200K years ago our predecessors had realized the mental capacity that enabled our ‘mother’ to ask “Why am I?”, the question of meaning that gave birth to humanity. After our birth our ‘parents’ could have continued their natural activity. But when our ‘mother’ asked the first why, our ‘parents’ didn’t know it would be “the last why”. They had an innate fear of physical unknowns. Since the missing answer was a metaphysical unknown in their minds, flight was impossible. So they fought their fear of it by making up artificial intelligence with which they tried to fill the void, an activity that began to change the rest of our history. 3

The change was ongoing for two reasons. Firstly, the degree to which we try to fill it is determined by our sense of the void. When our ‘parents’ found it among the unknowns, the void would have seemed the size of, and able to cause the fear of, a pinhole. Yet they and their successors continued to make up the artificial intelligence they hoped would fill the void. As uncovered facts diminished the number of unknowns around the void, this metaphysical unknown seemed to increase in size and effect to that of a black hole. So fear of it, and the conflict caused by trying diverse ways to fill the void increased accordingly. 4

Secondly, “trying to fill the void“ is uncommon, optional, self-destructive, unnatural activity. Being opposed to natural activity, trying to fill the void conflicts with our “reaching out to the limits of our capacities…” Then, since each of us directs our unnatural activity toward the void in us, it is opposed to the tries of others to fill the void, and to the extent others try to “reach out…” Finally, unnatural activity conflicts with Nature. To the degree we engage in unnatural activity we diminish our quota of natural activity. So self-creation and peace in our history was and is replaced by equal, increasing self-destruction and conflict till it’s over. 5

Trying to fill it is not the only reaction to the void causing conflict. At some point in our history, likely at the beginning of modernity, one of our ancestors, unable to find any artificial intelligence with which they could try to fill the void, gave up living. Thus “giving up” became a second reaction to the void. “Giving up” is optional, passively self-destructive, unnatural inactivity. There is only one way to give up and no way back. Giving up doesn’t initiate conflict. It’s a source of passive conflict. For anyone trying to reach out to the limits of their capacities, or trying to fill the void, anyone giving up is dead weight to fight. 6

There is a third reaction to the void. It is the ideal. The “ideal reaction to the void” is our self-creative, natural activity. It was gifted to us by Nature at the beginning of life, many eons before our ‘mother’ asked the question of meaning that gave birth to humanity and not incidentally discovered the void. The “reaching out to the limits of our capacities, to others and to Nature’s God” is common to us all. It is essential for life but not compulsory. We can choose to engage in any amount of natural activity except all natural. That amount depends on the blended activity of humanity. When we choose none at all we self-destruct. 7

Our ‘parents’ weren’t aware that except for their first try to fill the void their existence was  exclusively the ideal reaction to the void. In other words their existence was a blend of natural activity and a bit of unnatural activity. Metaphorically, if natural activity is white and unnatural activity is black, they wouldn’t have noticed the drop of black in what would have seemed to be their white existence. Continuing with this metaphor until the end, besides representing natural activity, white represents peace, self-creation and life. Black represents conflict, self-destruction and death. Incidentally, unnatural inactivity is clear. 8

So, when our history began it was white. Our ‘parents’ added a drop of black. Succeeding generations coloured our history with a spectrum from off white to nearly all black. The rate at which the shades changed was exponential. The curve began bending down with the growth of agriculture about 10K years ago. The shades were mid grey. The rate at which the shades changed through darkening greys and into the darker blacks was increased by our ‘enlightenment’, the Industrial Revolution, the Age of Information, and the computer age. The shades are now changing at a rate that is approaching our terminal velocity. 9 

This is bad news, especially when the terminus of our existence is in sight and we are turning the creation of the artificial intelligence with which we try to fill the void, over to computers. Our ‘mother’ created the first bit of artificial intelligence 200k years ago. Every generation since has created their own. This accumulation of diverse ways that fail to answer “why am I?”, the question of meaning that gave birth to humanity has, even without the use of computers, been causing the death of humanity. Given the conflict within us, between us and with Nature’s God, it will be by luck we’re not in the ‘black’ within 20 years. 10

If there is good news, though life is not a game, “it’s not over till it’s over.” There’s still ‘white’ life. By discarding the artificial intelligence that’s causing our conflict, we can replace the black with all white and see what happens. If we don’t, we can spend our few remaining years reflecting on the insanity of humanity for letting our reaction to nothing destroy everything. 11

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHIT (reasoned prose)
OUR LIFE LINE (reasoned prose)
TRUMP ‘16, BIDEN ‘20, NATURE ‘24 (rhymed reason)
ABORTION (rhymed reason)
AGE of ASININITY (rhymed reason)
ANALYZING CONFLICT (rhymed reason)
NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL (reasoned prose)
RACISM (rhymed reason)
COVID-19 vie er US (rhymed reason)
ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE (rhymed reason)
KNOWLEDGE and ESSENTIAL FACTS (rhymed reason)
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (rhymed reason)
LIFE: a reaction to the void (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: the death of us (rhymed reason)
ECONOMY (rhymed reason)
THE LAST WHY: the poem (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: a debacle (rhymed reason)
AGE of ENTERTAINMENT (rhymed reason)
MY POETRY (rhymed reason)
TOGETHER (rhymed reason)
LAW of HUMAN NATURE (rhymed reason)
ALCOHOL, DRUGS, SEX and other anesthetics (rhymed reason)
RELIGION (rhymed reason)
SEX (rhymed reason)
AFTERLIFE (rhymed reason)
HAPPINESS (rhymed reason)
ALONE: an anthem for humanity (rhymed reason)
WAR on PEACE (rhymed reason)
SOLDIER’S LAMENT (rhymed reason)
LOVE (rhymed reason)
JESUS’ SONG (rhymed reason)