Biologically speaking and, if you will pardon the dismissal and throwing out of, “evolution,” we are now the same species we have always been. The skyscraper may be the only difference between now and when Babylon was a mighty power. That was over a week ago so let’s discount ancient stuff and leave old junk to the archaeologists but, just for the minute it takes to read this and then you can get back to what you were doing before I so rudely interrupted your day. Isn’t that just like me though?
Differences in everything are notable but what is a crust on all of the conjecture, theory, guesswork is that mankind is the same since day one. We haven’t changed at all which is why we cannot get along more than a couple of weeks. Progress, a term better left in the dictionary, is only technical. You know, the wheel, the divider, the compass, and the ruler. Oh yeah, and the device you’re reading this on. Math is a natural attribute that was going to come along as soon as one person had more apples than the other person.
Stealing, of apples, probably popped up around that time also. Then punishment was needed so that the one stolen from could save their pride and then, wouldn’t you just know, one idiot killed another idiot. Then, the world, what there was of it in that small apartment portion of the continent, went to some kind of half baked war but not before the manipulation of an old branch to beat the guy who stole the apple over the head with. Then, like today, everybody had to have a branch to beat someone over the head with and then the atomic bomb was invented in the mind of a person who thought a weapon like that could pretty much allow that person to do anything he wanted to do.
There you have human history in a peanut shell. No TV or radio needed just some old fool who is somewhat snide and isn’t much impressed by any invention other than the wheel. Now that was a great thought that moved us ahead, the wheel. The rest was just us screwing around with stuff we didn’t understand the percentages of. I rather like percentages when they’re in my favor. I look for percentages and find them in the darnedest places. A savings and loan, for instance.
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