Like a child learning to draw from their first conscious actions, or like early humans who began creating art from their first awareness.
So too, it seems, that civilization as a whole can have an age, just like a living being. There are early stages, turbulent adolescence, experimental and aggressive youth, stable growth, maturity, and a gradual transition into void.
Our civilization today exists somewhere around the equivalent of a 16-year-old teenager—eagerly discovering new things, yet aggressive and still unable to grasp the deeper essence of existence.
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