Another Choice

But, while we all die, we do not all die at the same time and each of us is thus in a position to observe the others’ behaviors in the face of death - their own as well as that of those around them.

In this way each one little by little forms a sort of opinion or of assessment of the situation and of the condition we all are share.

This positioning – and its elaboration into communicable terms – is then transmitted within the collective time-space.

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Humanity has evolved.

The type, the quality and the degree of satisfaction each one will seek during the period of existence that is imparted will vary from one individual to another – and also from one stage of the individual’s life to another.

Willy-nilly through the ages, by a slow process of “civilization” humanity in its diverse groupings has constituted a common space-time which exists parallel and almost independently from the space and time that are physically measured.

It is the space-time of its acquired traits and qualities.

It is there that progressively and despite all ordeals external and internal, humanity’s achievements in terms of knowledge, faculties and capacities are laid in the common shared space.

Likewise has developed, throughout all experiences under the permanent and inflexible yoke of the finality of all material and physical existence, a kind of wisdom that is accessible and transmissible, a wisdom which offers and proposes itself to each one as a code of conduct and as the core, living and necessary and enduring, of humanity itself – of the human species.

This wisdom, precisely because it has become transmissible, is our one relative victory over the absoluteness of physical death – as it survives the destruction of the individual bodies.

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