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To gain just a little understanding goes a very long way towards eliminating suffering. I can see it in my personal life and the lives of others. Those that suffer the most have the least understanding of what life is about and who they really are. It is apparent to me in everything that I see and do that this is the case. Our job is not about making money, raising families, sex but about gaining self and collective understanding of the evolutionary forces that shape our lives. Then we can use developing free will to change ourselves and our lives for the better and release ourselves from suffering. Evolving Advanced Social Systems I believe the reason that humanity seems hell bent on destruction is because the autocratic social systems of the past organized a less populated and diverse humanity and can't handle the load placed on them today. Natures edict is evolve or die. The only choice we have is to take the next more advanced step in social evolution or die off to what life was like a few hundred years ago. In, The Theory of Social Evolution, I suggested that because nature builds organizational structure bit by bit and when it has enough bits it makes a larger more advanced bit and so on. I suggested that each person is a bit that is being replicated to the point where when there are enough people, nature will assemble the people into a larger bit, a super-civilization. I have suggested that our civilization is at a embryonic stage of development. We are at the same stage as in the formation of a body where cells have to find a more advanced way of organizing themselves in order to advance to the next level of organization or the embryo dies. I am suggesting that if nature follows this basic evolutionary template that is applicable to societal development, then we can look to nature for the next evolutionary leap in organization. Right now autocratic structure is such that the toughest meanest predators float to the top of the societal organizational pyramid. From the capstone they then control resources and information to the rest of society and take as much as they can without causing the control system that serves them to collapse. It is a master-slave society of mutual predation that works up to a point and unless those at the top get stupid and take to much causing the system to collapse resulting in revolution. A new system arises that is no better than the old. Hence civilization goes through these cycles of creation and destruction that are exactly he same as fluctuating animal and plant populations. While there is this competition going on in nature, there is some cooperation between species for either protection from predation or to better capture prey. The place were the real cooperation is going on is between the cells of each animals body including our own. If there were not that cooperation between cells there would not be bodies and things would still be the same as when life first formed. It would seem that nature has its cells organized in a body in a more advanced way than the way these bodies are organized in ecosystems. I predict that ecosystems also are moving up to a more advanced level of organization but are just not there yet. Man the most advanced organism has evolved out of these ecosystems but he has just not yet moved to the next higher level of cooperation between individuals of the human species. Mankind is still stuck with the more primitive autocratic organizational structure of the 189