That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.