More than a billion years of ignorance lies in the archaeology and histories of the past.
These decades, this century, and this millennium are a time of vast change.
During this time, change itself is drawing the world into an endless future that will always different and new.
For thousands of years now, every generation, the world will be new in ways not yet understood at all.
Our actions will be either meticulous, carefully designed and enduring, or crude, awkward, clumsy and brief. Actions very small will be better designed, often on the quantum scale. It will take a very much longer time for the world to become jaded again.
This whole new millennium should be totally new. In particular, it must not contain a repeat of the first stupid half of the preceding century. 2012 is an important year because it is the year twelve in the new millennium now immediately following the attainment of space flight.
To the Moon, planets, orbital flight around the Earth, toward the stars - all the space flight is a tremendously big deal for all the planet forever. Anticipated longer ago than can be remembered, it is changing the destiny of the Earth forever, tangibly, already.
Twelve is the atomic weight of Carbon, the most essential element of life as we know it. This big event, of the attainment of space flight, is changing the evolutionary patterns of the world in that fundamental element. Its effect, results, and consequences will continue to change the world for millions of years. Marginally certain ancient species will disappear, and new species will appear and eventually restore a stable balance of life.
Some governments capitalize on carbon-sometimes fiercely. Diamonds, loved everywhere for their purity and grace, appear in the Crowns of State of many nations. Diamonds are made of carbon - pure and crystalline element of atomic weight twelve. It is important in government to be fundamentally certain in the dimensions of time and space.
The huge diamond in the English Crown is a symbol of that importance. Artificial diamonds, are already that large, are changing the scale of their importance. The enduring value of diamond will ensure that concepts treasured in diamonds will continue to be treasured.
Other industries, particularly the fossil fuel industries of coal and oil, are of great economic significance and are based on carbon. Carbon's number twelve marked this year as an important year to the authorities of states and to their people as well as to the carbon budget and the carbon based life forms of Earth's biosphere.
It will be valuable to keep an eye on all these immense factors as the space-era world emerges from half a billion years of relative ignorance.
Despite the relatively constant nature of what it is, the world is only now being discovered for what it truly is, in the accurate measure and photographic clarity of secular reasoning.
Differences throughout the world are diminishing fast and will continue to disappear in the future. Many of the old causes of war have become insignificant variations in human activity. Few new causa bella are emerging with great significance, because they are defused even as they precipitate, and they become tractable through tourism and trade.
As peace becomes stronger and justice increases throughout the world, it will become simpler and less costly. Military traditions will be increasingly on defensive and regulatory, imagining the worst-against which the were, in the past, always required to be prepared.
Militaries may tend to aggravate international differences into conflict even though now, in the self-aware space-flight world.
Those differences are often now being moderated to peaceful communications through new media even as they appear.
Military leaders must be given some consideration in that it is we ourselves who have required them to be prepared at all cost to be ready to defend us at a moment's notice.
Even while peace is becoming more secure and its protections gain in strength, they will be required to lay down their lives on occasion.
We do not need to make those occasions more frequent than necessary.
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