Farewell to Humanity’s Childhood

The idea that theories of yesteryear were developed considering tools and information available at the time leads us to understand the writings not as true statements but as the start of critical thinking by rejecting them using new data.

Because Jean-Jacques Rousseau was living at a time when Europeans were discovering a new continent and new people displaying what appeared rudimentary customs (or so they thought by comparison with life in Europe), he was led to believe that they were the exact model of a way of life before civilisation transformed humans into a social species. To say that these “savages” reflected what humanity was stuck doing for thousands of years (we are here talking about those who still harbour this same line of thinking even with modern archaeological advancements), it is foregoing our creative, inventive and curious nature trying to rise above our condition: too simple of a thought.

The Dawn of Everything: Introduction

A few months ago, I was perusing a book shelf inside a book shop (evidently) looking for a book(Géohistoire - Une autre histoire des humains sur la Terre by Christian Grataloup) about how geography partially determined of the evolution of mankind that I might read later because on a complete struck of luck my gaze was captured by this book with a beautiful golden lettering on blue cover. After rapidly looking through the book and looking on the Internet what people interested/researching in history and ethnology were saying, I decided to take it home.