To be mouth or mouthful, hunter or hunted. That was the question. We deserved scorn, or at most pity. In the hostile wilderness no one respected us, no one feared us. We were the most vulnerable beasts in the animal kingdom, terrified of night and the jungle, useless as youngsters, not much better as adults, without claws of fangs or nimble feet or keen sense of smell.
Our early history is lost in the mist. It seems all we ever did was break rocks and beat each other with clubs.
But one might ask as well: Weren’t we able to survive, when survival was all but impossible, because we learned to share our food and band together for defense? Would today’s me-first, do-your-own-thing civilization have lasted more than a moment?
To be mouth or mouthful, hunter or hunted. That was the question. We deserved scorn, or at most pity. In the hostile wilderness no one respected us, no one feared us. We were the most vulnerable beasts in the animal kingdom, terrified of night and the jungle, useless as youngsters, not much better as adults, without claws of fangs or nimble feet or keen sense of smell.Our early history is lost in the mist. It seems all we ever did was break rocks and beat each other with clubs.But one might ask as well: Weren’t we able to survive, when survival was all but impossible, because we learned to share our food and band together for defense? Would today’s me-first, do-your-own-thing civilization have lasted more than a moment?
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