Civilization Originates In Conquest Abroad And Repression

Introspection And Preserved Writings Give Us Far More Insight Into The Ways Of Past Humans Than We Have Into The Ways Of Past Dinosaurs. For That Reason, I'm Optimistic That We Can Eventually Arrive At Convincing Explanations For These Broadest Patterns Of Human History.

Some People Have Much More Pull Than Other People. But When I Say That The Public Has Ultimate Responsibility, I'm Not Saying It In A Moral Sense. I'm Just Saying It In The Sense Of What Is It That's Really Going To Bring Change.

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.

Recent Discoveries About Apes Suggest, However, That A Gorilla Or Common Chimp Stands At Least As Good A Chance Being Murdered As The Average Human.

Think Of All The Human Suffering Caused By The Sad Truth That Beautiful Sexy Women Or Handsome Porsche-owning Men Often Prove To Have Miserable Genes For Other Traits