The Educational Revolution E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 293

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

In 70,000 years, we have reshaped Earth's biology twice. First, we killed all the megafauna on the planet, and then we planted and domesticated everything, including ourselves. We upgraded ourselves from believing to knowing, dethroned God, and did put ourselves on the throne, inherited the earth, and a responsibility that we and our closest ancestors have never taken seriously. We have enough to eat and no one eats us anymore. Our only enemy is our own lack of knowledge of who and what we and our neighbors really are. We need a revolution so that we can learn that there is space and need for everyone and that there is really nothing to be afraid of. We need an educational revolution.

Leseprobe

I have been educated by humanity and this is what I give you in return.

The digital epub and pdf version is free for everybody in the world, and you may copy as much as you like, and hopefully use my words for the benefit of all of mankind. My thoughts on humanity are for everyone to read, and I am so proud that picked up a copy. I wrote this book for you. Thank you.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue

Evolution and Imagination

We are God

The Veil of Ignorance

Curse of the Scientific Revolution

Compassion and Violence

The Meaning of Life

Four Horsemen

Creation of Ideas

Freedom, Slavery and Submission

Paradise

The Global Declaration of Interdependence

Epilouge

Timeline

About the Author

PROLOGUE

To all nations in the world. To all the people on the planet.

We have to save our homes, and by doing so we have to save the biology of our planet. We have to save our children, and by doing so we have to save our neighbor. We have to save ourselves and each other because our goal is to save humanity.

We are the only superpower of planet earth because we control which species are to live and which are to die. Our species have evolved to become the superpower of the world due to our unparalleled ability to think and act in gigantic groups. We are the only species, who can carve out stories from within our imagination and make them into reality. We are no longer homo sapiens. We are homo civic Mundi and we did inherit the earth.

Our destiny is embedded in this planet, and we do hold great power in our grasp, and with great power comes great responsibility. It is our responsibility to get along, and it is our responsibility to write a story on which everybody can believe in.

In unity, we must save the biodiversity of the planet, so future generations, our children and their children may prosper when we have gone. Our mission is to rebuild the planet, and it is our vision to live forever in Paradise. We have all the tools. We have all the creativity needed, but most importantly, we have each other, and we are powerful because we are all connected by knowledge. We are all important because we are all teachers and interdependent by education.

We shall save humanity with an Educational Revolution.

EVOLUTION AND IMAGINATION

Every single biological creature is prone to eat, not to be eaten and to pass on the capacity for its species to stay alive, and to reproduce if possible. Almost all creatures on the planet, for the last 2.5 billion years, have been living in groups. Either in large groups, called swarms, or smaller groups called clans, tribes or families.

Every single clan is a hierarchy based upon the individual's ability to eat, not to be eaten and to ensure the clan's future capacity to continue to do just that. In all clans, members share the resources needed for survival and the knowledge of how to perpetuate the game of life. All creatures are prone to pass on knowledge because all creatures are natural-born teachers.

Every member of a clan follows the ones, who are most successful at those three endeavors. Every single member of every single clan imitates the successful members of the clan. Everybody wants to be successful, because success is equivalent to survival, and to ensure the future of their children, and the future of their clan. Swarms do the same. When the first bee has hit the Jack Pot, the rest will soon follow.

Eagles imitate eagles. Bears copy bears, and whales are being taught by whales. We imitate primarily humans, but we copy ideas and behavior from all other species. Homo sapiens is very creative, and we are equipped with an imagination. No other species are in need of a kitchen, because no other animal create food compared to humans. Almost every single animal through the history of biological life has been limited to eat what it can find. But homo sapiens are creative and have transformed a huge variety of biological materials on the planet into food.

We are all born to become players in the deadly game of evolution. But evolution is not a game like football, Monopoly, cricket or beer racing. All of these games are finite games, They all have known players, known rules and an agreed-upon objective, that when reached, ends the game. In the game of evolution, there are no rules on how to play the game.

In a finite game, the players are easily identifiable. The players are familiar with the other players' existence, and they have agreed upon the rules, and they will accept the penalties enforced by a referee. The referee will signal the players when the game is to start, when paused and when it is over. Whichever player gets the most point at the end is declared the winner of the game, and everybody goes home. In evolution, there is no referee to end the game, and when a game never ends, no one can ever be declared the winner, and no one ever gets to go home.

There is no ending to evolution. Evolution is an infinite game. The enemies in evolution are both known and unknown. There are no judges, no referees or no winners. There are only players and extinction, and the playing field that we leave behind for the next players in line.

In evolution, success depends on the individual’s skills and luck in coordination with the surrounding environment, our niche, our playing field. Success is determined by internal competition, and a hierarchy within the clan is being established and defined by the physical and/or social strength of the individuals of the group.

Members of clans trust each other because they know each other personally. They are familiar with each member's strengths, weaknesses and set of skills. Knowledge is the foundation of trust, and trust is the foundation of any kind of cooperation.

But all creatures on planet earth has a limited amount of knowledge, and are therefore limited in their individual capacity to trust. All creatures are limited in the number of individuals with whom they can share a personal intimate relationship. Homo sapiens is like most other primates limited to just about 150 individuals, but most clans are much smaller. Some say that you are lucky if you have just five good friends.

Collectively we are the most powerful and influential species on the planet. The entire world is our playing field, and we have molded the surface of the planet in the shape of our culture. We have turned night into day, jungles into farmlands, stones into castles’, and we float on the oceans and cleave the sky in containers of heavy metals. But up until about 70.000 years ago, we were pretty much insignificant to most other creatures in the world, and we did not make much of an impact on the environment. Collectively we are today powerful enough to control the world and shape it in our image, but individually we are in reality all weak, capable of almost nothing at all, and we are all prone to die.

Nobody in their right mind would battle a lion or a cave bear one on one with their bare hands. Humans are not very strong, and a huge range of animals will easily beat us up, or at least be able to scare us off. Even birds such as swans, ostriches, and some parrots may do that with the greatest of ease, and even a tiny and harmless spider can make a fully grown homo sapiens turn pale with fear. Individually humans are terrible fighters in the evolutionary game, and for millions of years, we were likely to end up as another animal's dinner. For the first 230.000 years of the history of homo sapiens, we weren't hunting anything but small mammals. Instead, we were being hunted.

We cannot run very fast compared to other animals, and neither do we jump very high or very far. Instead of wings, we have arms, but they won’t make us leave the ground no matter how fast we flap them simultaneously. Our capacity to breathe underwater without technical support is limited to almost zero, which is a huge evolutionary disadvantage on a planet where 70% of the surface is covered with water.

Elephants and whales have bigger brains than us, and their brains have many more neurons than our brains. Chimpanzees will make most of us look like absolute idiots when playing games of memory. Pigeons will find a location on a map with no names much faster than any human, and with a much higher level of accuracy. Australian termites build cathedrals, roughly, matching the design of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, on both the inside and on the outside. In reality, homo sapiens does not excel in anything at all on neither the individual biological level nor the individual intellectual level. But we are the only animal with an imagination and faith.

A human will most likely lose a battle mano a mano against a chimpanzee. Our primate cousin is about four times as strong as we are, and we will most likely come up short very fast. Ten chimpanzees will most likely win a battle vs ten humans too, but a thousand humans will easily beat a thousand chimpanzees. We will win easily because chimpanzees cannot corporate in groups any larger than 150 individuals. Chimpanzees don’t trust chimpanzees from outside of their clan.

40.000 chimpanzees at the National Stadium in Denmark or on the loose in inner Copenhagen would be absolute chaos. It would be monkey business. But 40.000 humans would be a sophisticated network of a corporation. And we can only do that because we believe in fictional stories, and try to behave according to them. History is dotted with cases describing what will happen when human crowds are behaving like chimpanzees.

We are the only species on the planet who can cooperate flexibly in numbers far exceeding 150 individuals because we are the only species, who can trust beyond the borders of our clan. Homo sapiens is the only animal who trust, that their neighbor will not steal its resources, and we are also the only creature who has ever believed in gods. In evolution, both a friendly neighbor and gods are pure imagination. Both fantasies. Both fictional stories.

We are the only species who believe in fictional stories because we are the only organism with an imagination and the capacity to believe. We alone can look at a stone and imagine an axe, and we have the capacity and technology to make imagination into reality. Our dreams may actually come true. But so may our nightmares.

We are the only species who believe in democracies and tyrannies, and we are the only species who believe in money. Monkeys will not trade bananas for checks, and bees won't kill their queen and establish a republic or a beehive of communistic worker bees. We are the only ones who believe in time, human rights, nations, gender, superheroes, and very, very big bangs. None of these have any objective reality and they exist only in our imaginations,

Mountains, rivers, lions, chimpanzees, humans all have an objective reality. But if humans went extinct tomorrow, all nations would vanish instantly. Wolves, birds, pollution, and pandemics are crossing national borders with the greatest of ease because national borders don't have an objective reality. Time will move on, but the clock will never show 16:45 again, and no one would care whether it was Tuesday or Saturday Night. Every animal would be out there fighting anyway, as always. No animal except homo sapiens has ever agreed to a ceasefire because of Christmas. In evolution, there is no ceasefire or declaration of peace. There is only reloading.

We are capable of believing such fictional stories because we alone can agree beyond the boundaries of our clans. We are the only animal on the planet who can trust our neighboring clans because we are the only beast, who can imagine that neighboring clans can be trusted. In reality, everybody is in a fierce competition for survival, and in reality, there are no friendly neighbors. In an environment of competition, a friendly neighbor is a fantasy.

No one besides humans puts faith in a fantasy. No other animal invest in stories with no objective reality. Neither monkeys, lions or elephants need to know that there is an axe inside a stone. No other animal gathers resources to celebrate Christmas Eve on a Wednesday, December 24, at 8 o'clock pm. But we do and we control the planet.

We have the capacity to believe in other members of our species even though we don't know who they are. We are the only animal standing in line, arranging ourselves in orderly sequence without any kind of verbal communication, waiting for our turn for gratification. All other animals do not have any concept of standing in ques. We alone have got that capacity. We are the only species who have the ability to share ideas extending the boundaries of our language. No other animal has the capacity to store the inside information of their minds externally for other members of their species to recognize and understand. Homo sapiens is the only life form who creates lasting art. We are the only ones who can draw sounds, and that is why we can teach beyond death.

We are the only animal who is navigating reality by symbols. But we can only do so if we have faith. We can only do so if we believe in one another, and in this case, it would be the people who make and put up the signs. Monkeys and lions will never find a toilet in an airport. They don't need abstract signs to guide them to a proper location. Humans do because we can imagine what will happen if no one can find the toilet in an airport.

An established hierarchy based upon competition is a very effective tool in a world of a shortage of things to eat and miles upon miles of unexplored environment to conquer. But it is a terrible idea in a world with enough resources to feed everybody's need, and where there is nowhere left to go.

The world does not have enough resources to feed everybody’s greed, and there are no more enemies left in the world to fight, save a mosquito, ignorance and lower respiratory disease. We are the superpower of the world, and despite our individual weaknesses, we dominate the planet. All other creatures and animals on planet earth are suffering from the might of homo sapience.

We have not yet discovered biological life anywhere else in the universe. We don’t even know if biological life is to be found anywhere besides here on planet earth. Life on other planets is an idea born in our imagination, like an axe inside of a stone. But life on other planets still has no objective reality. Axes made of stone do. We might be all alone in the universe, and if so, then all the food in the universe is already here.

So far we are limited to planet earth. We are limited to the resources of this planet, and our common goal for humankind is still, as it has always been, to keep being a player in the evolutionary game. So we can keep eating, and we won't be eaten so we can continue passing on life and knowledge into generations to come. To be passing on knowledge is to educate.

WE ARE GOD

Nobody chooses their parents. Every single human being on planet earth is a product of a mother and a father. Nobody chooses the time in which they are born, and nobody chooses either the color of their skin, gods of their ancestors or the crimes of their parents. Culture and behavior, identity, religion, and nationality is something that the surrounding world is giving to us. But our entrances into this the world is completely random. We do not ourselves choose either our teachers or our classrooms.

And we are all born in ignorance. When we are born, we have very little knowledge of the world around us, We don’t know who we are, and we have no clue what is expected of us in the life that lies ahead. Nobody has ever been told anything from the beginning. Nobody is born with the concept of the meaning of life.

We are born only with the skills of breathing, sucking, thinking, grabbing, screaming, and copying behavior from our surrounding environment. And we are born with the ability to digest biological material, transform it into energy and get rid of what we are no longer in need of. From the instant of conception to the last breath of life, all biological life is in a constant change. We never stop aging and when we do, we shall all return to the mass of biological material. In death, we return to the puddle of life.

The mass of biological material on planet earth is constant, and it has been constant for 3.8 billion years. No life is leaving and no new life is being added. Throughout history, this mass of biological material has changed over time, and it changes all the time. Life moves on at a steady pace, but sometimes the mass changes dramatically, and right now humans take up the mass equivalent to 7.6 billion homo sapience. Fifty years ago there were four billion people on planet earth, but in such a short period of time, we have almost doubled in numbers. 3.6 billion people weighing sixty kilos on average, is equivalent to 216 billion ton of biological material, which has been transformed from everything else into homo sapiens. 96% of all land animals on the planet today are either homo sapiens or one of the animals that we have domesticated for consumption.

We are all mortals playing the infinite game of evolution on behalf of our species. Individually we are born randomly into the game, but individually we will not stand a chance against the forces of evolution, no matter our social position. Both kings and beggars suffer the consequences of life. Death is life’s great equalizer.

Evolution is not a game of individuals, and it has not been so, since an amoeba and the x-bacteria, billions of years ago, began working together for mutual benefit. That teamwork evolved over hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary success, into the first eukaryotic cells, which over billions of years evolved into all lifeforms on earth, including the modern civilized homo sapiens. Every player needs a team, and when two became one, it created the first of the dramatic occurrences in the history of life and transformed the biology of planet earth completely. Evolution became a multiplayer game. It has been so ever since.

The lifespan of the individual human being is very short in comparison to infinity. But together we have the power and the technology to sculpture our planet into the shape of our imagination, so we may equip our children and grandchildren with the tools required to create a future for mankind and all of biology.

We alone can imagine an axe inside of a stone, a statue within a block of marble and a satellite orbiting the planet. But we can only do so if we trust in one another, and trust is based upon knowledge, which again, is based upon the familiarity of evolutionary success. Homo sapiens primarily imitate homo sapiens, and we have always looked at our neighbors with both envy, suspicion and especially curiosity. Our neighbors might know what we don't know, whether they are human or not.

Every single homo sapiens that we will ever encounter in our lives are standing in the same line of evolutionary victories as we do ourselves. Everybody knows how to eat, not to be eaten and is taking part in the creation of both the present and the future. But on the individual level, we perform our evolutionary endeavor very differently. The to-do list of a president, or a queen in a wealthy country, is very different from the daily life of a 12-year-old boy from Sudan, who thinks and acts as if he was a soldier.

7.6 billion people in the world have stored information on how to eat and not to be eaten in their minds, within their brains. Each and every single human being is an evolutionary success because of the greatness of their mind, and all people have a mind. Many have concluded, that homo sapiens rule the planet because we individually are intellectually superior. We might even conclude ourselves more clever than most of our neighbors, which most of us actually do. 80% of what we call the western civilization believes, that they are more intelligent than the national average.

All of these brilliant minds have all been molded by the impressions of the surrounding environment. Our minds have been shaped by the inputs of the world around us through senses experiences. The mind is both very flexible and highly suggestible. Lions become lions and woodpeckers become woodpeckers, but humans become lawyers, carpenters, dressmakers, idiots, and philosophers.

We are guided by the inputs of our minds, and our mind is a lump of fat, acting like a muscle that makes us capable of succeeding in our evolutionary endeavor, stimulated by sensory experiences. An individual born in Jutland, Denmark year 890 would grow up to become a Viking. Information on how to become an aboriginal, and how to find water in a desert and how to successfully avoid a rattlesnake was simply not available in year 890 Jutland. It would also not be relevant to a Viking, due to lack of desserts and rattlesnakes, just as the aboriginal wouldn't knowhow to invade England.

But no single individual has enough information about the world to be able to survive for long. Nobody invaded England alone and no one found the axe within a stone without assistance, and nobody will ever be able to reproduce by themselves. Humans learn almost everything in life by receiving information from someone else. We are all natural-born students and each and every one of us is carrying a part of the blueprint on how to be a successful human being. But we are only equipped with parts of the blueprint, given to us by our teachers.

No one will survive if they have no knowledge of the world. Evolution is brutal and relentless. But no one would have any understanding of the world, and how to survive, if nobody else had shared their information on what to eat and what would kill you if you ate it, and how to avoid becoming some large predator's dinner. Life depends very much on the choice of teachers because knowledge is something that our very existence rests upon, Individually no one knows, and has ever known, everything needed to survive in the evolutionary race. Students without teachers will learn nothing, and without knowledge, the students will experience extinction up close and very fast. When on your own, you have no one to ask because there is no one to answer.

Loneliness annihilates both our capacity to believe and the sources of knowledge, and without those, we cannot trust in one another. Without trust, there can be no faith, and without faith, we cannot cooperate beyond our clan. Without faith, there can be no cooperation, no nations, no human rights, no democracies. There will be no Christmas, Ramadan or Bar Mitzva. Without faith, there will be no civilization.

We can imagine houses and roads, and we can domesticate animals and create rich pastures of refined crops. But we can only create all of these wonders if we can cooperate with strangers outside of our clan. Our genome, our branch on the evolutionary tree evolved 2.8 million years ago. The oldest tools crafted in stone by our ancestors first appeared 300.000 years later. The speed of the evolution of ideas is very, very slow when the creative capacity is limited to 150 teachers.

No single individual knows everything that has to be known in order to build a granary, a train or a mobile phone. No city has ever been built by a high priest, an emperor, a king or a president. All cities throughout history, have been built in cooperation by people numbering far above 150. No one would invent a city alone, because no one would be in need of a city if they were on their own, Individually we don't invent anything at all. No one would invent a language if there is no one to talk to.

Chimpanzees don't build cities and granaries. Their individual behavior simply won't allow them to trust any other unknown chimpanzee. A chimpanzee knows only of chimpanzees, who desire its possessions, and will do almost anything to get it. A male will fight you and a female will trick you or perhaps fight you, too. Monkey see monkey want.

Chimpanzees look at their chimpanzee neighbors, like humans look at human neighbors, with envy, suspicion, and curiosity. But also with anxiety, because their individual behavior makes everybody an enemy. The consequence of individual competition is that everybody becomes an enemy, even within the clan. Competition annihilates cooperation.

All chimpanzees will show almost identical bad behavior simply because it's a chimpanzee, and like any other biological creature, chimps imitate chimps. To be a chimpanzee is to be very annoying, violent, opportunistic, and not to be trusted. Chimpanzees are teachers too, but to be a good chimp, you have to be a bad monkey.

Chimpanzees don't share or cooperate with strangers outside their clan. That behavior is distinctively human, but it has not always been like that. For about 230.000 years of our own history, we lived in clans, too. We did as any other animal in clans, fight among each other for our social position, which occupied most of our time and intellectual brainpower. Though we refined our axes and spears, we had the same kind of tools 250.000 years ago, as we did 70.000 years ago. Monkeys and any other mammal don’t create weapons as we do, because they are terrible at corporation beyond their own clan. Monkeys are still too busy infighting to think about world domination.

Homo sapiens first appeared in eastern Africa about 300.000 years ago, and the modern man is almost 100% identical in both stature and DNA to his first direct forefather. It requires a highly trained specialist to spot the differences between a homo sapiens born today and a homo sapiens born 300.000 years ago.

Compared to that, a 300.000-year-old chicken looks absolutely nothing like a chicken of today, neither in DNA or physical appearance. But humans do. The evolution of humanity is very, very slow, and for the first 230.000 years in our time as a biological creature in the puddle of life, we organized ourselves into clans. Just like chimps, wolves, whales, elephants, lions and so on. We weren't to be trusted either. We were also violent and opportunistic.. We still are.

We were yet to discover the wonders that we could create in cooperation transcending the collective intellectual and creative capacity of the clan. Civilized behavior is not in our DNA. Civilization is a cultural skill, and it is very difficult to master. To be a civilized human is to follow a constant flow of changing rules in a game with no rules.

The education of a civilized human takes much longer than any other biological creature on the planet. A horse can walk almost immediately after being born. A hamster is almost fully grown when it comes out of its mother. Humans are born absolutely helpless, and we are helpless for a very long time.

We are born with the skills of breathing, sucking, grabbing and screaming, but we are not born to be civilized. It takes years to master a knife and a fork, and how to use a toilet properly. And then some extra training on how to find one in an airport. Civilized is something we become through education. Faith is a skill.

Every single race on the planet teaches its offspring to be winners, and in evolution, there are no winners, only players, and extinction. Homo sapiens is the only species on the planet who knows, that cooperation between clans is a much better strategy for survival than internal racial individual competition. Humans can do that because we have an imagination. We can look at things the way they are and imagine something completely different, and then try to make that into reality. We are the only animal who believes that our very annoying neighbor really isn't annoying at all.

Humans are beings inspired by everywhere because we are highly suggestible and we have the brainpower to process the inputs with both creativity and imagination. We have the capacity to make every single biological creature our teacher. Other animals did teach us what to eat and what not to eat, and combined with the use of fire made, it made a huge variety of biological material available for human consumption. But we also created helmets and shields imitating turtles, exoskeletons like crabs, which we might call plate mail or Kevlar armor. Homo sapiens is a natural-born super student.

We can study all other creatures on the planet, both the creatures that have survived evolution in hierarchies, but we can also study the species who have survived by numbers. Bees, ants, herrings, butterflies, lice and a huge range of animals on planet earth, have all succeeded in the evolutionary game by being massively represented in numbers. When we study, we gain knowledge and we unlock the secrets of evolutionary success.

We might have discovered the power of large scale cooperation in such a fashion because we are the only species on the planet who can cooperate flexibly in gigantic groups. The cocktail of flexibility, corporation, imagination, and faith is an evolutionary mega event. It has affected the collective biological mass just as much as when an amoeba and it's x-bacteria ganged up and changed biology forever. In the 4.5 billion years-long history of planet earth, this has just begun. Homo sapiens is now in charge of the future of biology because we know how to turn clans into swarms.

We can look at the world and imagine it differently. We can imagine paradise on earth, and throughout history, we have done so many times, in many variants. Human culture is everywhere, and inside almost every single human being is an imagination of a better place, either here on earth, or whenever we humans die and return to the puddle of life.

The concept of some kind of heaven is widespread throughout cultures all over the planet. Often a place of peace, harmony, and prosperity, surrounded by gods and ancestors. A place where the individual can eat and won't be eaten in eternity. But there is also an imagination about hell, and we have the tools to create both. We did inherit the planet, and we may sculpture it in whatever image we might come up with. It is up to us.

When homo sapiens left eastern Africa about 70.000 years ago, we packed up our newest invention; faith. To celebrate the mega event, we left Africa with the imagination that members outside our clan could be trusted. We shared a common goal in our search for something to eat, protection from being eaten and an opportunity to raise our children to have better circumstances for success than ourselves. Historians call this event for the cognitive revolution.

The cognitive revolution did not happen overnight. Up until then, we were all bad monkeys, and those who were good monkeys weren’t monkeys for very long. It takes a very long time to convince people about new ideas. Especially when no stranger is to be trusted. It is hard to regain trust when it has been broken. Even today, after 70.000 years of practice some humans still mistrust their neighbors. While we have been quite successful at putting faith in our neighbors, we have also failed miserably over, and over again. It is very difficult not to be a bad human.

Empires and civilizations have come and gone throughout history. Natural disasters have crushed some civilizations. But most, empires, dynasties. nations or any other large scale human cooperation have collapsed when the spoils of the evolutionary war were being distributed unequally within a hierarchy consisting of individuals with personal ambitions on behalf of the majority.

No civilization was ever built by an individual. All civilizations are built on corporations over time based on fictional stories. All civilizations are being defined by those who write those fictional stories, the laws of civilization. And when the rules no longer apply to the lawmakers and their selected supporters, and when the lawmakers get much more to eat, much more security and much more luxury, then a chain reaction of bad behavior starts spiraling downwards within any culture. Because humans have always copied the successful. And if the successful is breaking the rules, then people will copy and start breaking the rules in massive numbers. Everybody will stop following the rules, and anybody will use any opportunity to break them or to use them to their own advantage to the detriment of the majority. Human see, human want, too.

Individually we may travel safely through a network of human cooperation from Denmark in the northern part of Europe across half the planet to Australia. We would most likely not be attacked and devoured by large predators while traveling. We are under united human protection. To our ancestors, the same journey would have been very different and very dangerous. It would have been almost impossible.

Australia was discovered by humans just 40.000 years ago. Until then no one had the skills to make that journey. 600 km of swimming with stone tools is not recommended no matter how powerful your god may be. They would not have gathered enough knowledge to make that journey safely.

Our ancestors used 30.000 years of education out of Africa and the assistance of an ice age to reach Australia. Today a flight from Amsterdam to Sydney can be done in about 27 hours because we are highly specialized in our education, and mastering feats that our forefathers could not even imagine. We invest in guides to bring us safely through the air and back on the ground. We can make the journey safely because we are under the protection and guidance of humanity.