82
about when we discuss “right” and “wrong,” rational and irrational, particularly
with respect to the “biotic community” at large. Nothing about our language groups
has yet translated thought into ecologically gentle understanding at the level of a
global human population. Not unlike the dour and devastating “units of production”
earlier referenced, and implicated in so much of humanity’s destructive paradigms,
our language-and-logic-based causes and actions have yet to demonstrate the humility and restraint which a few individuals among our species have managed. This
paradox of taxa between the one and the many of the same species is a critical
minefield which remains entirely unknown in its multiple contradictions and evolutionary pathways.
38
Within that taxa paradox, numerous individuals leap out within the imagination;
individuals whose body of work suggests a self-governing, non-urban biotic com38 See The Theoretical Individual: Imagination, Ethics and the Future of Humanity, by M.C.Tobias
and J.G.Morrison, Springer Nature, New York and Switzerland, 2018; See also, The Hypothetical
Species: Variables of Human Evolution, by M.C.Tobias and J.G.Morrison, Springer Nature,
New York and Switzerland, 2019.
Fig. 8.4 Engraving circa 1660 by Jan De Visscher after Nicolaes Pietersz Berghem. (Private collection). (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
8 Paradoxical Frontiers
about when we discuss “right” and “wrong,” rational and irrational, particularly
with respect to the “biotic community” at large. Nothing about our language groups
has yet translated thought into ecologically gentle understanding at the level of a
global human population. Not unlike the dour and devastating “units of production”
earlier referenced, and implicated in so much of humanity’s destructive paradigms,
our language-and-logic-based causes and actions have yet to demonstrate the humility and restraint which a few individuals among our species have managed. This
paradox of taxa between the one and the many of the same species is a critical
minefield which remains entirely unknown in its multiple contradictions and evolutionary pathways.
38
Within that taxa paradox, numerous individuals leap out within the imagination;
individuals whose body of work suggests a self-governing, non-urban biotic com38 See The Theoretical Individual: Imagination, Ethics and the Future of Humanity, by M.C.Tobias
and J.G.Morrison, Springer Nature, New York and Switzerland, 2018; See also, The Hypothetical
Species: Variables of Human Evolution, by M.C.Tobias and J.G.Morrison, Springer Nature,
New York and Switzerland, 2019.
Fig. 8.4 Engraving circa 1660 by Jan De Visscher after Nicolaes Pietersz Berghem. (Private collection). (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
8 Paradoxical Frontiers