Emergence, In Fifty-five Words - Section Three, Earth; Part Twenty, Collective, Collected Chapters

Emergence 2.0 A Novel – In 55 Words a Day Day 141, May 21st, 2017 Chapter One: Family The care of a loving family is like the wet, clinging mesh of a spiderweb. Humans are trapped in it, suspended, enwrapped. The majority of people who have ever lived, never lived apart from these bonds. Familial obligations are invisible. Everything we are comes from the family, everything we do redounds to the family name. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 2.0 A Novel – In 55 Words a Day Day 142, May 22st, 2017 Chapter Two: Kin As families become clans the bonds of loyalty are set in the body, constructed from chemicals and enzymes, by proteins and amino acids, by the songs and rhythms unique to each group. They pass on their memories from one generation to the next. These are bonds that we do not see, that we never question. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 2.0 A Novel – In 55 Words a Day Day 143, May 23rd, 2017 Chapter Three: Village Hierarchies emerge in village life, just as they do everywhere in the animal world, social hierarchies forming around the well, at the markets, the places of worship and religious life, and in the seat judgment. The center is everything, with rank flowing out from it in concentric rings. A person was either in or out. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 2.0 A Novel – In 55 Words a Day Day 144, May 24th, 2017 Chapter Four: Tribe There was safety in the tribe, and the ability to test one’s self through competition with peers. There were shared customs, and stories, and rituals in the tribe, those things both shaped the structure of the tribe and taught all of its members the means by which they could advance. There was otherness as well. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 2.0 A Novel – In 55 Words a Day Day 145, May 25th, 2017 Chapter Five: City Encampments became villages, and villages became towns. Towns grew into cities as people migrated into the urban centers for trade, and work. They clung together in ever greater numbers, for protection, and opportunity. Families dispersed, becoming ever less important. What became paramount were the relationship the individual had to neighbors and teachers, patronage and clientage. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 2.0 A Novel – In 55 Words a Day Day 146, May 26th, 2017 Chapter Six: State Large cities gathered smaller towns and villages to themselves, just as families did kin, to form greater clans and tribes. The bonds that formed were like the spokes of wheel, both radiating from the center and supporting the outer frame. There were the ancient bonds of vassalage, bonds of the imagination, bonds of determination. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 2.0 A Novel – In 55 Words a Day Day 147, May 27th, 2017 Chapter Seven: Nation Common language, common custom, rituals and religion; these tie people together, as ligaments connect bone and muscles in the joints of the body. They formed nations from states, building on the foundations of security and prosperity. The old allegiances of family, tribe, and clan were shifting ever-outward, away from people, into the world of ideas. #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!

Emergence 2.0 Section Three, Earth Part Twenty, Collective Collected Chapters 01 Family 02 Kin 03 Village 04 Tribe 05 City 06 State 07 Nation #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi #55Words Like it, Follow it, Share it!