Homo Sapiens Survived by Inventing…Bullshit!
…MOVE OVER FIRE, THE WHEEL, AGRICULTURE, IT TURNS OUT THE GREATEST HUMAN INVENTION WAS…BULLSHIT! Recent bestseller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind” by Yuval Noah Harari reveals that 70,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens were able to outcompete Neanderthals by creating imaginary concepts that were able to unify larger groups. Shouldn’t we call these people something like “Homo Trumpians”?
This startling discovery by Human Anthropologists makes sense, since in the animal world, there is no bullshit while our world is full of it. Animals get food, procreate, trust their immediate family and clan, fight competitors, and die. But according to the book “Sapiens”, this limits the numbers and potential of your clan. It turns out Homo Sapiens were but one of five different human-like species 100,000 years ago, and not especially distinguished in the brain-size, muscle, or survival categories. However, they won out mainly for one reason…that they learned to lie better (and eventually create large communities based upon questionable and sometimes imaginary concepts). So imagine a war 70,000 years ago between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens. The Neanderthals were bigger, had larger spears, and were more suited to the climate. But Homo Sapiens won because they set up decoys and ambushes, more or less saying “Hey Neanderthal, your shoelace is untied” (which the Neanderthals perhaps…
