I Personally Am Not Conscious Of My

I'd Rather Spend My Leisure Time Doing What Some People Call My Work And I Call My Fun.

With The Rise Of Chiefdoms Around 7,500 Years Ago, People Had To Learn, For The First Time In History, How To Encounter Strangers Regularly Without Attempting To Kill Them.

Twelve Thousand Years Ago, Everybody On Earth Was A Hunter-gatherer; Now Almost All Of Us Are Farmers Or Else Are Fed By Farmers. The Spread Of Farming From Those Few Sites Of Origin Usually Did Not Occur As A Result Of The Hunter-gatherers' Elsewhere Adopting Farming; Hunter-gatherers Tend To Be Conservative.... Instead, Farming Spread Mainly Through Farmers' Outbreeding Hunters, Developing More Potent Technology, And Then Killing The Hunters Or Driving Them Off Of All Lands Suitable For Agriculture.

To Science We Owe Dramatic Changes In Our Smug Self-image. Astronomy Taught Us That Our Earth Is Not The Center Of The Universe, But Merely One Of Nine Planets Circling One Of Billions Of Stars. From Biology We Learned That Humans Were Not Specially Created By God But Evolved Along With Tens Of Millions Of Other Species.

The Past Was Still A Golden Age, Of Ignorance, While The Present Is An Iron Age Of Willful Bliss.