collective madness
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:17 pm
Someone has sent this through to me taken from a SENScot bulletin, I believe.
'It has always been assumed that the different races evolved separately in different parts of the world – but genetic research has now established that modern day populations in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas, etc – are all descended from common ancestors. The human race owes its existence to a single east African tribe of around 200 people who managed to cross the Red Sea around 70,000 years ago – and who went on to colonise the entire world. They reckon human evolution took 4 million years. From a few thousand humanoids on the African Savannahs – by 8000 BC there were around 20 million of us worldwide – by the time of Christ about 200 million. We reached a billion by 1865 – 3 billion by 1965 – 6 billion by 2000.
If we could shrink this 6 billion to a village of precisely 100 people – keeping the same human ratios – there would be 60 Asians, 12 Europeans, 13 from the Americas and 14 Africans. 70 of the hundred would be non-white; 80 would live in substandard housing; 70 would be unable to read; 50 would suffer from malnutrition; one would be near death – one near birth; one would be a University graduate. Six people would possess 60% of all wealth – these six (all from USA) would be in control of the village. The village would be run on the basis that the richer those six became – the better it would be for everyone – a kind of collective madness. '
What can/should we change - if anything?
'It has always been assumed that the different races evolved separately in different parts of the world – but genetic research has now established that modern day populations in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas, etc – are all descended from common ancestors. The human race owes its existence to a single east African tribe of around 200 people who managed to cross the Red Sea around 70,000 years ago – and who went on to colonise the entire world. They reckon human evolution took 4 million years. From a few thousand humanoids on the African Savannahs – by 8000 BC there were around 20 million of us worldwide – by the time of Christ about 200 million. We reached a billion by 1865 – 3 billion by 1965 – 6 billion by 2000.
If we could shrink this 6 billion to a village of precisely 100 people – keeping the same human ratios – there would be 60 Asians, 12 Europeans, 13 from the Americas and 14 Africans. 70 of the hundred would be non-white; 80 would live in substandard housing; 70 would be unable to read; 50 would suffer from malnutrition; one would be near death – one near birth; one would be a University graduate. Six people would possess 60% of all wealth – these six (all from USA) would be in control of the village. The village would be run on the basis that the richer those six became – the better it would be for everyone – a kind of collective madness. '
What can/should we change - if anything?
