Description: decentralization, self-determination as a replacement for free will, individual and community self-sufficiency
Human beings just like you and I have been around for at least 300,000 years. We rarely think about this. We think life worth talking about started when hunters and gatherers took up farming 10,000 years ago. Since we prefer more manageable intervals, the Gregorian calendar starts with the birth of Christ. On this reckoning, we are barely into the 3rd millennium.
North Koreans are even more precisely located. They start their count on Kim Il-sung's birthday April 15, 1912.
No matter what calendar is used, we have been busy . The Anthropocene - a single species precipitating a global epoch - is now talked about: the world is heating up, burning down or flooding. Economies are self-destructing.