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Evolution in the It Quadrant

Evolution in the it quadrant
An organism afraid of scarcity, of the need to eat itself, spasticated wildly, and broke through its egg, then struggled out into the ocean, feeling the triumph of novelty, of innovation.
An organism, afraid to be eaten, grew fins and swam more quickly than the mouths chasing it, and its mouth swam faster than the gesticulations of the jelly-bodies it wanted to eat.
An organism jumped out of the water and glided on its long-wide-thin fins because the mouths in the water had grown large and fast and sharp-toothed.
An organism waddled onto land, with a big mouth and teeth that could chew the fruits and a stomach that could turn vegetables into animal, and ruminated safely until the big sharp hungry mouths  found something easier to eat, and somewhere easier to hide from the biggest, sharpest, fastest, hungriest mouths.
An organism took to the air, where nothing could eat it, and where it could see everything edible, and it swooped to eat the walking organisms, then back to the sky, until it got too tired to fly, and the patient mouths on the ground and in the trees learned to digest feathers.
An organism took to two legs and large brains and opposable thumbs, and used tools to kill prey and ward off predators and develop the land to its needs and had no need to fear being eaten by big mouths, but its large brain made deep folds that learned that the smallest mouths still ate them slowly to death.
An organism, afraid of scarcity, of the imminence of obliterating itself, took its tools past the atmosphere, where it was cold, and the only food was its own recycled poop, and the only water came from its own recycled urine, and the mouth of unlimited space led to the gullet of unlimited time, and it felt the pride of novelty, of innovation.
Written by prometheus5290
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Author's Note
You have to read Ken Wilbur's "A Brief History of Everything" to understand the title. The short of the title is evolution has 3 major aspects, the I (roughly spirituality), the We (roughly culture), and the It (The objective sciences-physical and psycho-social), and if they do not develop cooperatively, the result is some form of dissonance (neurosis, social discord).
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