Origin of Humans

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Really?

Because honestly, life 10,000 years ago was nasty, painful, brutish and short. I doubt too many hunter-gatherers wouldn't jump at the chance- if they understood it- to trade places with your or my existence, today.

And frankly I find the whole "Man is terrible, we're awful, we fuck up everything, we suck" mindset to be nothing more than- guess what?- warmed over and repackaged religous guilt and "original sin" nonsense. Yes, the universe was perfect before Eve and Adam ate the apple humans advanced to their current state and sin modern civilization entered the world.

Yes there are problems and yes we have huge challenges, but we are also the most interesting thing to happen to the planet in a long time. And unlike the Dinosaurs, we now possess the means to potentially stop a Chixiclub-size event, which would cause more damage in an instant than industrial civilization has caused in 100 years. In fact, one could argue that the planet's biosphere evolved us potentially as a self-defense mechanism. Just a thought.