How Can People Not Be?

This is the wonder of our age - people who do not exist. Something so strange, most people assume it is impossible. And if it is impossible, they don't have to worry about it.

This is defective thinking, at its worst - because people who do not exist, now populate, and control America. They can still function, as animals - but not as humans.

What do I mean by that? What are humans, anyway? Lots of people are now involved in answering that question - they call themselves paleoanthropologists. And they believe, we cannot understand ourselves, unless we understand our ancient history. How we came into being, and what we became, millions of years ago.

What we became, can be described in a long list:

We walked on our hind legs.
We had little hair, but sweat glands in our exposed skin.
We enjoyed frontal sex, frequently.
We took care of our sick, and our aged.
Fathers helped take care of their children.
We had fire, and used it to cook our food.
We had Language, and talked to each other, a lot.

To this list, we have to add another list of technologies, that we invented. Including Stone Tools, and the domestication of plants and animals. And our most important invention, by far - Civilization, a whole complex of inventions. This can be summarized by saying we were creative - and good learners.

The result was the Ancient World, the rise of the Roman Empire - its collapse, and then the thousand years of the Medieval World.

But you are becoming impatient with me - I promised to explain how people could not be! Please be patient - this was a very late development. That happened in only the last a few hundred years, or so.

This was the result of two revolutions - the Scientific Revolution and then the Industrial Revolution. And a series of World Wars, culminating in the Holocaust.

But people had had enough - they could not understand what was going on - and decided the best solution was to get out of that Reality, and form Realities of their own. And, without giving it much thought - cease to exist, to not be.

This was the worst possible choice - we were no longer good learners, but became total incompetents. Without realizing this, in the least.