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People like to shit on different groups (African, Northern Europeans) for not creating great civilizations. But it seems to me that creating civilization and technological innovation is not the norm, but an exception for humanity. The stone age was longer then all of human history combined, during that time, humanity was at pretty much the same technological level, with very slow innovation. Then more advanced, city-building agricultural societies started popping up, but only in a few small areas (Mesopotamia, Nile valley, China). The rest of the word pretty much still remained in the stone age for millenia, and only advanced through contact with those few original civilization.
Creating civilization and technology is not something that's in the genes of humans. We were able to do without it for most of our history after all, regardless of the circumstances (the Ice Age isn't the only thing to blame, it barely affected the Middle-East or Africa). Instead civilization was something that happened in a few small areas by accident, proved to be really successful and spread everywhere else via conquest and trade.
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This also means that those groups that remained backwards for a long time did so because they were mostly isolated from the original civilizations and those that followed them. (Africans by the Sahara, Northern Europe by the forests etc., while the Mediterranean was easy to sail and the lands near the shores were fertile and ripe for settling.
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Creating civilizations is in our genes. For all of our history we had languages, tribes that worked together and formed some level of rules/culture, and basic toolmaking. Civilization is just a growth from those basics. It's like saying big cathedrals are shit and impossible because they're made out of shitty rocks that you can find laying on the ground.
Those basic building blocks of civilization aided us in survival, as did making larger and more complex civilizations. And intelligence is pretty much the only fucking thing that allowed us to survive because every other species in the homo genus sucked dick at everything else. Hence why they're all fucking dead. The only reason we lived was because we traveled a lot, bred like rabbits comparatively, and killed everything else we came across that could threaten us. And even then at one point we almost died in a genetic bottleneck. Hence why humans are more homogenous than any other species. We're basically the inbred rednecks/niggers of the homo genus who ran around fucking everything, killing everything, and then lived long enough to go "we wuz kangz" through all of our history as we proceeded to murder each other and fuck each other over as hard as possible. Because once you're the dominant species, the only other threat left is other members of that dominant species.
And half of our valuable traits come from being dicks. Like humor potentially came off as a way to let our guard down so other people trusted us because we didn't trust one another not to pretend to say there's a lion and we run away as he fucks our wife, or he spots a lion and wanders off to "pick berries" as we get eaten. It's why our smiles don't mean "OH SHIT NIGGA, IT'S A PREDATOR!" like other primates. We had to actually laugh and let our guard down for someone else to trust us. And it's why we're good at spotting emotions and reading faces, spotting liars, body language, etc.
We're fucking dicks.
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