Mankind Is But A Catalyst

A Temporary Toolkit To Nature

Marcus van der Erve✨
Societal Cycles
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3 min readNov 25, 2019

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“Ideas in the currency of action…” from The Human Catalyst.

History has shown time and again that humans like to think of themselves as “the chosen ones”. The facts confirm that mankind is indeed an instrument of nature but as accidental catalyst only. According to the dictionary, a catalyst is “a person or thing that precipitates an event…but without itself undergoing any permanent change.” Certain chemical reactions take place…

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Marcus van der Erve✨
Societal Cycles

Author, Novel 'Palpable Voice' to Literary Agent (Societal impact of AI), Organizational Sociology (PhD), Applied Physics (B.Eng.), ex-Club Of Rome/EU-Chapter