Brief
journey of civilization
In
very simplistic terms the earliest known periods of civilization human beings
had less communication, less information, less knowledge, more brutality, more
animalistic life style with little to care about the requirements of
resources for usage and survival;
Slowly
and steadily life on this planet earth [wrong term though seventy percent -70%
is water] started becoming more and more human centric, sometimes at the cost
of life of other species and the environment.
This
excessive and exclusive focus on human life neglecting other life forms made
human beings to device tools, equipments and technologies to make life more
comfortable in multiple ways and threw up many pleasant support systems to render
living smoother.
Initially
they started as greedy instincts to have and posses more resources and areas
leading to too many silly wars;
Followed
by collective emotional entertainments leading to many traditional and cultural
art forms;
Followed
by urge to communicate to generate common utilities leading to reduction in
number of languages so that more people could be communicated to;
Followed
by fear of the unknown aspects of life leading to creation of many gods, gods
out of heroic and exemplary figures, religions and rituals;
Followed
by age of reason to rationalize beyond belief systems to enable collective
living and enhanced understanding unhindered by any ideological identity based
restrictions;
Followed
by parleys into experimenting with different social systems/political systems
to live together with justifiable contribution to and share from the resources;
Followed
by scientific discoveries to enhance understanding and help living and life,
away from and besides the clutches of religions and traditions;
Followed
by in the recent centuries, dominance based on initially economic and commercial prosperity and multiple
means to achieve them;
Followed by various means at
national levels through discoveries of more resources and raw materials useful
for human life, through real industrialization, improved and increased
agricultural production;
Followed
by inevitable adaptation of advanced technologies;
Followed
by dominance through military power trying to loot readymade where these things
are available and so on;
Following
all these developments will make us realize that there are wide varieties of
options to lift human race up with all their pleasant complexities;
But then in each of these
there are multiple steps which must not be confused as stops;
There are also balloons and
bubbles in all these which may appear like enabling us to float high but we
must careful not to get carried away by them.
However, all said and done
human beings have advanced from a species with kuru disease to cyber gurus.
Besides, if we observe the
above we may not miss to notice that in every age or period in history certain
things held human minds with addictive obsession to use certain specific items
as a predominant frames of reference to evaluate and encounter everything at
times it was physical valor, at times it was physical beauty, at times it was
wealth, at times it was intellectual capabilities and so on.
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