Looking at the news headlines, I'm not so sure the word 'civilization' is a relevant descriptor of what we have here. It's more like Ug and Mug those intrepid cavemen, but with better technology. Our technology has improved, but we haven't matched it.
In the news, writing is getting more popular but reading, not so much. The vanity press is actively seeking suckers - er, I mean 'customers', and with over 150 million of us bloggers clacking away here, who has time to read this stuff? It's a bit like the more than 70 channels on my TV - there's not a whole lot of it all that good, mine included.
We've still got a lot more questions than answers, about almost everything. And speaking of everything, why isn't there a Theory of Everything? Because: the combined knowledge we presently possess barely explains merely four percent of our universe, because whatever we can discover about it isn't even a good representative sample.
In other words, we don't know where we are in it, nor why, nor where we're going, and we haven't even got any really good guesses. Like, what caused the original Big Bang? We don't know. Was it someone's accidental or intentional nuclear detonation in some other dimension? We don't know. Are there other dimensions with intelligent life? We don't know. Is our solar system someone's subatomic particle? We don't know. Is our universe expanding because we're part of something that is growing? We don't know. Is our physical reality only a portion of an infinite continuum? We don't know. When things are trapped in a Black Hole, where do they go? We don't know. Does the stuff that goes through a Black Hole create another 'universe' somewhere? We don't know. - See what I mean? There's a hell of a lot we don't know.
But as Will Rogers said, "It's not the things we don't know that get us into trouble; it's the things we do know that ain't so."
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