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Facetiously, Gloria Steinem has suggested that we consider the last five thousand years of history a loss and start over in building the society that we want. It is something to smile about, while we realize that starting over would mean emptying our minds of knowledge that humanity has accumulated across millennia and returning to a lot ideas such as sacrificing to the gods and eating the flesh of a good or strong person in order to ingest that person's goodness or strength. It would mean returning to a belief in evil spells and beginning again strings of brutal dominations and wars for empire. We should not separate from history the development of attitude and belief. The people in ancient times, including those who described creation, were not people with modern minds stuck in ancient times.
:-) And given the level of agriculture 5000 year ago, if we all start over again many of us would starve. There would be a terrible war for survival. :-)
The best we can do, of course, is to build from what we have.
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