There is too much talk of reverting to the animal and the disruption of society, etc. We should be concentrating on building a decent future and getting rid of the avalanche of outmoded social mores, such as greed and acquisition, class, bad education, and the usual physical madnesses of aggressive nationalism, etc.

Apes keep on living as it is. What's the point?

I agree. there isn't much of interest that far back. In fact we have hardly started to be interesting now. And I don't think we should consider the dark-ages as something that will arrive after our science does this or that to the earth. The dark ages before existed without that. My worry is that we are already entering a new dark- ages. To me they signify ignorance. The 20th century can hardly be called enlighting. World wars and the crushing of thinking opposition. Although science does help in many ways; desease, food- supply, transport, radio, etc, it doesn't help socially much. Social development depends on a different sort of science. The 21st Century, remember, is the aftermath of the 20th Century barbarism. We seem to forget that people in the dark ages weren't aware of it being the dark ages. That is, of course, where most of the problem begins. Thank god for musik and literature!