The pre historic ape man had an edge over the other animals in terms of the ability to think and communicate. The collective awareness and knowledge built up since then has helped the society evolve, consciously or naturally, arguably in a better direction. There exists a physical world and then this virtual world of collective awareness which together forms this society*. History suggests both evolve over time.
Some observations to support this hypothesis of evolution:
- Structure of societies along with constitution and legal systems evolve (feudal, autocratic, democratic)
- Economy evolves (from exchange of goods to currencies to era of globalization)
- Religions, art forms, natural science, philosophies and all human awareness attributes evolve
A lot of thinkers and philosophers have tried to understand this historical evolution, discover patterns and extrapolate these patterns to predict the path of evolution in various fields be it politics, be it society of be it behaviour of a stock market.
Question that remains is, are there any recognisable pattern?
This entire writing is a quest to find answer to this question. All contributions and views are welcome.
*Note: Looks like I am omitting biological or genetic evolution. Yes biology can claim responsibility of various social aspects - it is already considered as a part of the physical universe. And our knowledge of biology is part of our awareness.
