The social species

The landscape of the human world is changing. A social animal is becoming a social species. Human social consciousness is becoming the social consciousness of the whole human species. Among all the species of social animals, one species is becoming the social species.

Biological history tells the story of the evolution of the human species by natural processes. Human history is the story of the self-evolving of the human species through the work of the human mind. The self-evolving of the human species is a by-product of the self-ordering of human beings, within the private mind of each human being and within the public minds of all human societies.

The three co-ordinates of our self-consciousness – as individual human beings, as intermediate societies, as the society of all-humanity – are the ordering structures of the ceaseless process of our self-constituting as persons and as societies. As the human species re-creates itself as the social species, the human mind faces new challenges, new in kind and new in scale, at every level of human self-constituting, at every level of human self-consciousness.

Social pathology

We are excited by the new possibilities of human self-constituting at the level of the species. Unused reserves of human potentiality can be released and realised, bringing into fruitful collaboration new levels of human energy, creativity, intelligence, to serve the highest aspirations and the highest ideals of all-humanity. We know that we will be writing a new page in the better story of human self-evolving.