Chapter 8 - The Tribal Man's Matrix
The first major changes to the matrix came when man started
forming structured societies to create more effective responses to
the inputs. This came in the form of tribes. This may have been a
creation because of the early death of the adults. If an adult life
span was only twenty, it meant that there were often young children
left alone, without parents when the parents died. If the offspring
were to survive, a social system had to develop to handle this
environment. Tribalism was an early form of matrixing, which
effected the amount of inputs, and the way in which man reacted to
those inputs.
Now for the first time he was able to pool the resources and
abilities of the tribe. Each hunter could go off in a different
direction or some could look for food while others, cared for
children, or looked for shelter or water. This added the element of
distribution.
This element was the first step toward being god-like. It meant
that a single man could receive more from his environment than he
actually made the physical effort to accumulate.
What a concept this must have been, to get more than you deserve!
Man must have really liked this matrix because, this matrix existed
for well over a million years. In fact we still use it in part
today. It is just a small part of the matrix which we live in and
probably will remain a significant addition to achieving the
God-like state. The matrix of today includes many parts of the past
matrixes. However, many of our current problems stem from trying to
use this matrix to solve the problem of a lack of resources within
todays existing matrix, which although it includes this matrix, is
nothing similar to the matrix above. If we search, locate, and take
the necessary resources today, we often call it theft, or even war.
The greatest changes to primitive man over the first million years
were not in the matrix, but mostly biological. Man became what we
have come to know as Homo erectus. His basic matrix of
relocation to find his resources created a plethora of finds for
modern archeologists. It was a Homo erectus found in China,
or Peking man, as he is called, that discovered fire. Fire was a
tool that fit into the primitive man's first matrix very well and
still fits in the matrix we have today in a much more limited way.
For many hundreds of thousands of years, through the introduction
of and development of Homo Sapiens, the basic tools remained
much the same. They were fire, spears, knifes and flints. The basic
nature of the matrix was not changing, however the tools within it
were growing. Man still used relocation as the primary method of
supplying his resources. But, even primitive man was constantly
developing sub matrixes and systems around the environment. He was
using tools to make his life easier and learning more with each
passing generation. He developed communication tools such as
storytelling, and hieroglyphics to pass on his knowledge to
following generations.
Like the rest of the grand matrix during this time, mans ability
to control his source of food developed very slowly. It took over
two million years for man to change from a hunter/gatherer Australopithecus,
in Central Africa, to his modern Homo Sapiens form. However,
he took his first major leap in the grand matrix only twelve
thousand years ago. It was again the changing of the environment
that created the change in the matrix that lead what Alvin Toffler
called the first wave. We often refer to it as the
agricultural revolution. This revolution gave way to a different
matrix, which moved and changed the relationships of many aspects of
life significantly.
Matrixing:
Chapter 9
Matrixing:
Chapter 10
Matrixing:
Chapter 11
