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0147 Here is another question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0148 What situation-level potential1b’<\/sub><\/em> are these individuals in community2b’<\/sub><\/em> manifesting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the actuality independent of the individual in community2a’<\/sub><\/em> that defines the human niche1b’<\/sub><\/em> in the normal context of natural selection3b’<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is the thesis of Razie Mah’s masterwork, The Human Niche<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is triadic relations<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0149 Section eight of this article seeks to establish that aspects of the author’s conceptual framework<\/em> are already in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0150 Indeed they are.  The author offers Figure 4, concerning human capacities to modify local ecologies.  The figure is re-illustrated here.  But, be warned.  Organizational capacities significant enough to change local ecologies<\/em> (other than the selective use of fire and some other tricks, like laying stones that encourage animals to migrate into a trap) are not that relevant to the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.  They are relevant to our current Lebenswelt,<\/em> because the organizational capacity of humans<\/em> is no longer constrained after the first singularity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0151 Remember the Genesis condemnations leveled by God to Adam after the Fall,<\/em> while still in the Garden of Eden?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God’s curse<\/em> is the law of diminishing returns<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why does God level such a curse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam is a mythical figure that is created in the Lebenswelt that we evolved in,<\/em> but transmogrifies into a creature that introduces all humanity to our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law of diminishing<\/em> returns<\/em> applies to the times when humans are so organized that they can transform the ecology and environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is our times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0152 “The first singularity” is the label that I apply to the transmogrification of the ethnos to the narod,<\/em> at the dawn of history<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0153 See The First Singularity and Its Fairy Tale Trace<\/em> (for a brief presentation) and An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em> (for the dramatic exposition) for more information.  Both are by Razie Mah and available at smashwords and other e-book venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, the inquiring person may explore Razie Mah’s blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The years since 2019 are particularly notable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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