I know its long, but I think it expresses some important ideas in an original way.  Let me know what you think!

                Throughout the history of the planet Earth, changes in climate, tectonic activity, and the intervention of cosmic projectiles (and possibly other conscious visitors) have determined the degree to which life developed, and the subsequent behaviors of those organisms.  When the planet was cold and covered in ice, life developed at a rate slower than when the planet was hot and well-oxygenated, and the organisms that developed to thrive in the cold died off as the planet transitioned into a more temperate climate.  Likewise, organisms that developed to thrive in the heat died off as the planet transitioned back to a cold climate; forces greater than the will of the organism to live determined its success or failure.

                However, when human beings appeared, the game appeared to have changed.  Human beings possessed a conscious will, and an intelligence, that allowed them to avoid certain fatal stressors that would have annihilated other life forms; we migrated when resources ran out, or when living conditions became too inhospitable.  The constellation of capacities that enabled this behavior, such as those for organization, methodical behavior, and above all meta-self-awareness, initially gave humans practical advantages in the ability to survive and propagate the species.  It is with the intense extended practice of these abilities that the human race has achieved its current state of affairs, for better or worse.

                The ability to control, and materially rearrange, our environments comes principally from the left hemisphere of the human brain.  By “materially rearrange” I mean the ability to create new objects using the physical material found upon and within the Earth.  When we take physical material from (or from beneath) the surface of the Earth, we repurpose it to manifest our own ideas of how it would be better used, removing it from the systems in which it normally circulates and, in a way, “freezing” it within our conception of it as a new object.  Since the rise of mass agriculture, this “freeze” has taken place on an increasingly massive scale, encompassing not only our behavior towards the Earth, but also ourselves; humans have procreated beyond our ability to sustain ourselves within the boundaries of our environment.  “Freezing” gives us the illusion of our ultimate capacity, divine creation, while in fact driving us towards destruction of our primary connection to that divine destiny, the planet itself.

                With the concept of “freezing” I will contrast “melting”, a capacity which humanity has chosen to develop far less, and which resides more so in the right hemisphere of the brain.  This capacity is fulfilled by acting inversely to “freezing”, by breaking down the sometimes unwieldy ideologies and physical structures that “freezing” creates as its fundamental characteristic.  The capacity of “melting” exists to rein in the systematic, fear-based, rearrangement-prone aspects of the human mind when they stray too much into the practical realm and no longer produce satisfactory results, and to replace them with the appreciation of the processes on which life depends, rather than the results of those processes.  “Melting” focuses on accepting the change, the constant rearrangement, the entropy, which is inherent to life as a human and over which humans have little control.  It is the task of my generation and subsequent generations to bring humanity’s tendencies to “freeze” and “melt”, to stress abilities in the left hemisphere and right hemisphere, into balance with each other, and the planet.