The Natural State of Mankind

the farther you go back in time the

natural state of things is that they

stay the same merer Eliot for example

when he talked about let's say

prehistoric people preliterate people we

might say for example when they're

fishing if they're fishing people they

act out the the fishing activities of

the exemplary fishing hero and then

that's just replicated across the

centuries because we think that creative

Innovation is the standard mode of human

being in some sense and that's just not

true this expansive Global technological

society that we live in now is only a

few thousand years old at the most it's

10,000 years old that's not very old

we've been identical to what we are

genetically at least in principle about

350,000 years and for most of that

350,000 year span everything stayed the

same and so the rule is continuity the

exception is change