Here is the reference work for why the Eurasians just got so much stuff, can work together, and have progressed so far. By sleeping with their herds, the Eurasians developed immunity to diseases like smallpox, measles, and plague. Their morality, formed by their religion, saved them for the most part from decimation by syphilis and such. Finally, the defensible rivers of Europe, more so than Asia, forced them to trade along those rivers. Fording a river under fire to attack an enemy is not conducive to good health. So trading became the preferred way of getting the other fellow’s stuff because you couldn’t kill him and take it.
So it’s not that we’re smarter than our fellow humans in Africa or, for example, Papua New Guinea, where people eke out a life on subsistence agriculture. It is that we had natural advantages. We had natural conditions that were conducive to learn cooperation. And, everything is a result of that. God’s joke? Maybe. Or a tremendous opportunity to help ourselves and others.
We have our own self-inflicted wounds! Slavery, that we “learned” in Africa and imported here, turned into racism. Socialism, that we learned in Europe, has displaced the self-reliant rugged-individualist “we do big things” American ethic. AND, we haven’t learned from history, we allowed politicians to lure us into doing things we KNEW were bad. Private armies like the FBI, CIA, BATF, IRS, etc etc. are unconstitutional. The income tax was stupidly allowed to come into existence (It’s legality is debatable). Fiat currency allows the gubamint to “tax” us by inflation. Gubamint skools have dumbed down the future citizens so they can have the wool pulled over their eyes. AND, we now have an entrenched government bureaucratic elite and all the related people suckling off the gubamint.
And after all this when the politicians stick it to us, they expect us to “honor their service”.
Arghh!
Reinke Faces Life 