Zeitgeist

competing cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens hominins humming mostly human song altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways opportunistic, never staying long self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising real representative intelligence modelling worlds beyond, longing for more joy than pain purpose transcending dumb irrelevance climate driven, hunter-gathered along extinction's edge numbers cusping, shifting on tomorrow ritual farewells, early-taken ones, skyward elders starry hunting grounds rewarding sorrow cosy continuity cuddling, rebirth, warming shelter displaying awesome memory art collectivising food, possessions and skills, knowledge sharing automated roles each knowing their part shaping shadows flicker, the wind mimicking coming dread the stalking others, encroaching unknown external threats part-placated by soothing fateful hands therapy of rarely being alone living life on the moving margin, populations prescribed unfolding or sudden catastrophe developmental phase, contributing key strands of zeitgeist less full-stopping, much more apostrophe time to pause, to look around, neolithic revolution surplus farming, settlement sustaining people multiplying, specialising, militarising monarchy, lords, chieftains, priests ordaining pictures depicting, symbols inscribing image and thought mathematical logic, written word probing reality, codifying behaviour and rules enlisting wrath of gods to be incurred fear underpinning earthly and heavenly hierarchy enforcement of body, quelling of mind forgiveness of sins, guilt progressing on backs of many meek advancement of soldiering, warring kind exciters of opulence with little worldly trickle-down forms of fiendish felony emerging inheritance and justice pausing until after demise godly inquisitions, devil-purging slaughter of innocence in the false name of omnipotence persons enslaved for pleasure, power and trade empires extended by blowing sail and the march of armies proxy potentates privilege-played territory scaling up, alliances, subjugation life, death, glory in name of nation state early multi-million holocaust, slavers shipping plantation souls wealth, invention, landed-gentry estate god-favoured powerful tribes, attributing superiority homing-in on surface racial features subservient others, inferior womenkind, sexual norms missions inculcating pagan creatures more surviving than dying, zeitgeist precariously perched industrialisation ramping-up march of ideas, science, technology, the ascent of man women just visible in filling-cup ambitious families seeking to maintain, extend their hold recruiting sergeant, " your country needs you " trenches dug, troopers gassed, bombed and mown-down stench of zeitgeist as your army feeds you unintended consequences, the second modern holocaust empire's horror, humiliation's breath evil crawling into view from crevasses of twisted minds the grim industrial chambers of death diving downwards into dark pits of civilian descent fire-storm blitzing, children nowhere to hide atomic flash, brilliant glowing souls, justified for greater good skin-stripped napalm kids, grinning genocide wings of progress furiously flapping against thinning air barely ascending nearby mountain peaks rockets city-pointing, collateral stand-byers bartered avoidable death as the drone-eye seeks positive news, millions uplifting from disease and hunger others migrating not accepting fate entry deniers spotlighting needs of alternative lands these are our people who are at the gate united nations evolving, space-station orbiting hope information age informing the young power balance shifting away from old orders of might zeitgeist composing new songs to be sung delicate blue orb demanding international review disrespecting boundary border-blocks sovereignty sharing, globalising, near-space investment focusing on ecological stocks still humming hominin song, much human wisdom required beware viral spread, zeitgeist retreating return to greatness, narrowing national interest hooligan fakers, planet reheating