Civilization Originates In Conquest Abroad And Repression

But This Was The Only Way Of Life That Humans Knew For Their First 6m Years On The Planet. In Giving It Up Over The Past Few Thousand Years, We Have Lost Our Vulnerability To Disease And Cold And Wild Animals, But We Have Also Lost Good Ways To Bring Up Children, Look After Old People, Stave Off Diabetes And Heart Disease And Understand The Real Dangers Of Everyday Life.

The Main Thing That Gives Me Hope Is The Media. We Have Radio, Tv, Magazines, And Books, So We Have The Possibility Of Learning From Societies That Are Remote From Us, Like Somalia. We Turn On The Tv And See What Blew Up In Iraq Or We See Conditions In Afghanistan.

Human Societies Vary In Lots Of Independent Factors Affecting Their Openness To Innovation.

Livestock Adopted In Africa Were Eurasian Species That Came In From The North. Africa's Long Axis, Like That Of The Americas, Is North/south Rather Than East/west. Those Eurasian Domestic Mammals Spread Southward Very Slowly In Africa, Because They Had To Adapt To Different Climate Zones And Different Animal Diseases.

In Fact, Everywhere In The World There Has Been A Flux Between Big And Small Societies. Big Political Units Are Constantly Being Formed, Later To Fragment. The Individual Pieces Try To Pull Apart, And Then They Join Together Again. One Sees That In Europe: There Have Been Unifications And Then Dissolutions And Reunifications. So In The Long Run, It's 10,000 Steps Toward Amalgamation Offsetting 9,999 Steps Toward Falling Apart Again. In Businesses And Industries, I Would Guess That's Also True.