By: Kort E Patterson Our modern lives are full of the gadgets and artificial creations of the mind of man, but there is one artifact of human intelligence that makes all the rest possible - the civilization in which we live. With nearly all of our accumulated knowledge acquired during man's relatively brief period of civilization, we tend to take for granted that civilization has always existed and is somehow an inevitable state for mankind. Outside of a few primitive cave paintings, all of our recorded history is the record of human civilizations since mankind only gained the ability to record history after the dawn of its first civilization. We tend to forget that all of recorded history only represents a tiny percentage of the time modern man has roamed the Earth. Statistically, civilized life is an aberration in the human condition while living rough as small groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers is the norm by a wide margin. Assuming that civilization is a desirable condition, ...
Realisation of Our Rights