Defining a Millennium: Where are we at in our larger cycle as Homo sapiens?

Where are we at in our larger cycle as Homo sapiens? That has been a question that keeps coming to me as I read these chapters. I'm not exactly sure why, it could be just pure ignorance, but I really did not realize that we have been exhibiting so many of the same character traits for some many millennium: competition, hungry expansion, globalization, hunger for power, dominance of ourselves and other species, control of goods and services, classism, neglect of our responsibility to our natural surroundings, slavery, etc. I really thought that globalization was a modern notion: how wrong could I be. This ignorance could also be a result of never having this historic world view which has allowed me to see our species in the broadest of views.

So where are we in our larger cycle a Homo sapiens? It does seem as if we exist in cycles. Looking at the Chinese, they have ebbed and flowed through times of unity and times of discord. I think we are at an important time in our larger cycle. I think this because we all started out on on continent, Africa, and started the slow journey around the globe. The ice age ended and separated us again. Over the next 12,000 years we have slowly been coming back together. We are at a high time of global connectedness. We have all come back together. I wonder if we can unite as a species at this moment and evolve into something more than our past. It seems as if we have perfected that way of living with each other and our planet. We know how to compete against each other and feel like we have won. But the reality is that we have not won, we are losing. I wonder if we can take this grand moment of global unity and cooperate on a massive scale to see what we can become. I wonder if we are able to evolve, once again.  (331)