THE TIDAL PATTERN OF HUMAN SOCIAL EVOLUTION

TIDAL

Rarely does one have time to sit and watch the tide go out and then come back in completely without leaving their point of reference. But we know the tide does shift every day as it has since the beginning of earth’s seas and we know it will continue long after the body we know as ourselves has decomposed and is reunited with the elements from which it came.  Our consciousness is tidal, our passions are tidal, we move most like the fluid bodies of the earth and of the inestimable firmament that fixes us not like an ancient body impregnating a flow of soft, primordial amber but rather like the sea, the clouds, the intergalactic magnetism of changing heavenly bodies.  The electromotive forces pulling and balancing the cosmos are more ancient than those of our marvelous earth's and the waves of energy it fluxes stretch from one eternity to the next... it's reach is beyond infinite!

Social evolution is also tidal.  Each time the fluid forces of change rise against the massive shore that resists them, covering it and obliterating its face but for a moment.  When the waters of change recede they have eroded the face of resistance permanently grinding it down to its most fundamental stratification, loosening every infinitesimally diminutive pebble in its bedrock foundation, opening fissures, causeways and tunnels.  When the tide of social evolution flows out again it gives us a chance to assess how effectively we have eroded our opposition.  It allows us to see the naked truth of oppression and if we are able to descry it without intimidation the next time we ride in on the tidal waves of truth we will have fortified ourselves with suitable strategies to demolish the embankment  so that the tide of change may roll in and over its opposition effortlessly.  Eventually the embankment of opposition will be thoroughly eroded  and the sea will freely flow over them, as the tide moves it in and out of its eternal, diurnal cycles; it will have become the seabed.

Some say the electromotive forces within us move in response to the pull of the moon and the cosmos all around us, that we are bound to this inexorable energy flow and therefore must understand it in order to better understand ourselves.  That is one of the great mysteries of life, that this force we cannot comprehend because it is the result of an infinite matrix of spatial and massing possibilities could have the ability to shape our very humanity… forcing us to ask ourselves if it is truly we who define ourselves or if there are other unseen, unimagined and incomprehensible forces driving our exploration of humanity and existence.  This theory brings us to wonder if we are the thing we believe ourselves to be or if we are not.  We know with certainty that we are organisms moved by the unseen forces of nature.  We know that the atoms and particles defining us are subject the mysterious and volatile happenstances of unrestrained creation.  Like the elements that flow in and out of one form to become another we are definitely tidal…..

Written by Bigdaddy Blues