Where did spirituality/religion come from, and where is it going?

[Clarke]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

I would maybe also call it a progress if people learned more to listen to the natural world, understand the language of the animals, explore their emotions and beneficial cooperative social structures. IMO the NA'Vi are a very strongly developed and "progressed" (yet of course fictional) culture - just their focus is not on growth but rather on balance, it is not on machines but on relationships, not about competition but cooperation and not about doing things faster or bigger, but rather doing it at a scale and speed that is appropriate.

Consider the stats: humanity produces more culture per day than they could over 10k years.