I know it sounds kind of crazy, but I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. Ever since high school biology, really; and intro to civilization.  The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became.  Of course, I haven’t the faintest idea what it means...  It all comes down to this:  ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.  Remember?  Yeah, I thought you would.  You’re just a little rusty when it comes to remembering what it means, right?  Well, pretty much what it comes down to is that the personal developmental history of an individual example -- say, by way of example, me --  of a particular species -- ontogeny -- repeats, or recapitulates, the history of the evolutionary development of the entire species -- phylogeny -- from single celled organism to, for example, homo sapien.  Well, what got me thinking was all the talk that the guidance counselors were giving me about how our society is getting ever more specialized and that as a result we need ever more education to get by; and that sounded so much like all the stuff we had been doing in biology about evolution - that the trend was ever towards cell specialization; how originally, there were simply one celled organisms that were all the same and did the same things -- sort of like, say, a hunter-gatherer model of existence -- and that as the forces governing evolution -- and, boy, do I not understand what they are -- progressed it forced some of the cells into mutations in which suddenly there were different kinds of cells engaged in slightly -- but ever increasing -- differentiated activities yet were working together to increase the “success” of their venture to survive and reproduce -- sort of like, say, a tribe.  This process continued, then, for hundreds of millions of years.  Along the way we got things like muscle cells, liver cells, skin cells, bone cells, and, of course, brain cells, and even within each of these new categories, and subsets within subsets within subsets of specialization, especially where brain cells are concerned; and this sounded to me sooo much like the same things that the guidance counselors were telling me about how society needed all kinds of workers, but those possessing the more specialized -- in other words, newer -- skills were the ones in greater demand, and this sounded just like the evolutionary prerogative that the new extended organisms’ capacities and so was rewarded with the greater capacity to survive.  Yes, you’re right, of course:  this is a vast oversimplification, but I was in high school when these thoughts were first forming in my mind and I’m trying to give you the flavor of what my initial experiences were in this regard.  What I mean is how, on a sliding scale of relativity, muscle cells and bone cells are the least differentiated from one another, are at one end of the scale, while nervous system cells are the most differentiated from one another, and how this seemed to me to perfectly reflect the reality in human civilization... if you substitute individual humans for individual cells!  This is what I’ve been trying to get at, all this time, yes!  It’s that, if you substitute individual humans for individual cells in the ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny equation, then it all makes sense... as long as you’re willing to take the necessary leap, which is that human civilization is, in actuality, an organism in its own right; one that is subject to the same evolutionary forces that an individual being is.  In other words, human civilization started out it’s evolutionary history as a bunch of single celled organisms with little if any connection between one another.  This was the stage of the hunter gatherer.  Then -- what?  Well, yeah, I was doing drugs back then, but not in any insane quantities like some people I knew... Yeah, I did meet Harry right around then, but I’ll get to that.  Anyway, are you at least beginning to get a faint idea of what I’m talking about?  Just as cells became increasingly specialized as organisms evolved ever higher to ever more complex forms, so are human beings becoming ever more specialized as society and civilization evolve; and don’t kid yourself -- it is evolving; there’s simply no other word for it.  And one of the most fascinating things about this, I didn’t even realize until later when I was in college and read The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.  This book was written at least a full generation before Darwin’s Origin of the Species, yet it employed very similar language and constructed hauntingly familiar constructions to describe the development of capitalism.  It’s almost as if we had to gain consciousness of our own conscious application of the evolutionary force in the realm of human artifice before we could see that the world that brought us into being operated along the same lines, that the same principles applied.  I think that it may all be connected to the origin of the limited liability corporation.    By giving an abstract human creation legal standing akin to that of a living individual; I think this was the real Frankenstein’s monster.  Anyway, it all seems clear to me now, that we’re all cells in one giant mega-being that is gradually coalescing around us, and that sooner or later-- maybe already -- we’re all going to be permanently assigned to specific cell-systems -- you know, muscular, skeletal, digestive, nervous.  The really crazy thing is that the ancients in India, you know, one of the very first civilizations, based their entire class system on parts of the body.  It’s been a long time since I read about this, and it’s all kind of fuzzy in my mind, but I know for sure that the Brahmins were the tops -- what part of the body they corresponded to I can’t seem to recall though, maybe it was the spirit --  and then I do remember that the lowest class, the so-called “untouchables,” who corresponded to the excretionary functions.  In fact it was their role in this society to remove and dispose of human waste, thus their designation as untouchable, presumably due to some instinctive understanding that disease could be transmitted through waste.  Anyway, that’s another piece of the puzzle that I was putting together in my mind.  Can you start to see the picture?  Maybe we’ve known it instinctively all along.  Maybe that’s what all this God business is about.