re: Is the human race regressing?

Regressing? No. We’re the same as we’ve been for the past 60,000 years when the light of full consciousness turned on with our species.

The problem is that this consciousness and its associative intelligence has brought us to a stage where we have become the apex predator over all other species. From the smallest virus to the blue whale, the largest animal ever to inhabit earth, we can select what we want to use for our collective benefit.

We have stopped evolving because the need for us to adapt to our environment is no longer relevant. We instead adapt our environment to what we need or want.

We are dominating the earth like no other species has. Unfortunately we don’t have a collective desire to live in harmony with the other species.

Earth is experiencing the sixth great extinction event in its history. The effects of the burgeoning human population is pushing other species to extinction.

We don’t have any natural rivals anymore so we have become our own enemies. We war mostly for abstract reasons.

With war our technology continues to advance. Without it we would slide into a fatal equilibrium wherein we would literally consume ourselves to death. Some groups of us, about half of all Americans for example, are already doing this. The current generation is the first in history that won’t outlive its parents, if the status quo is maintained.

Fortunately there are enough of us who are still interested in life and in our species that we are still progressing. The writing is on the wall, however.

We cannot continue as we are. We must take the next step in evolution and insure that humachines succeed us.