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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (326148)

4/30/2020 1:25:02 PM

From: koan

Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 362532

Institutional slavery is basically gone and only exists in outlaw failed states. But that was not my point, it was an example of our increasing humanitarian evolution. The increase in civil rights and equality would be other examples and especially gender equality..

What I am trying to show is the progress the human species has made in the last 100 years or so. That is, and has been the point I keep trying to get across. Events like that have causes and IMO the cause is the dramatic increase in worldwide education.

The story of modern humans began about 15,000 years ago when we quit our nomadic life and settled down and became farmers and merchants.

History shows a slow by steady progress from a primitive animal who's reality was one of myths, and spirits, to a very sophisticated humanitarian being who's reality increasingly is science. It has been a long journey and along the way humans have been at war and very brutal for most of that time.

As mentioned, humans have made more progress toward a humanitarian being with humane societies in the last 100 than in the previous 15,000.

And it is very clear that progress correlates with the advent of worldwide mostly compulsory public education. The more educated we became the more humanitarian we became; and the better we were able to elect humane leaders and the reason, IMO, is that we got better at understanding what constitutes humanity and its importance, and which leaders were best able to give that to us.

Even today we see that countries with low amounts of education often pick brutal leaders, while in highly educated societies people do much better.

Pervasive worldwide public education is the only variable that makes sense.

cheers

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Institutional slavery is gone all around the world NO! a blind eye is turned...