Human society is a new kind of self-organized system. It is the first one we know of formed by intelligent beings. This gives society as a whole the kind of power no other complex chemical or biological system has. Perhaps we are at the very beginning of a new kind of evolutionary development. Perhaps we are the precursors of a future world society, or a solar system society, or even a galactic society.
What would such a thing be, this future society, this super-organism made up of our descendants? Perhaps it wouldn’t even be aware of human existence, just as we were not aware of our neurons until fairly recently. But then perhaps it would learn to look deeply within itself and see the small creatures who busy themselves by sending messages to each other, messages that build in power until they shape the thoughts of a living creature. If so, then that being would embody the hopes and dreams of us all, and become the soul of The Grassroots Society.
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