For millions of years, stretching back beyond our earliest hominid ancestors, we have lived as hunter-gatherers, in tribal units. The earliest traces of agriculture date from only about 10,000 years ago, but the ancestors of most living humans have been practicing agriculture for less than 5,000 years. Even then, the social habitat was tribal – the most important social unit, and in most places the largest, was the village.
It wasn’t until the 19th century that significant numbers of people lived in cities, and not until the 20th century that their children grew up, their characters forged in the new urban habitat.
Not by coincidence, it is at this time that a new word appears in our lexicon – ennui: chronic boredom. At the same time people begin to talk about isolation – not circumstantial isolation that is caused by being alone, but existential isolation that persists even in the company of others.
The problem is that the human species is maladapted to its current habitat. We are not at home in the environment that we have created for ourselves. Instead we are plagued by a restless searching for – we don’t know what. To understand what we need we have to look at the social habitat for which we are evolved.
There are actually quite sophisticated cultures dating back 30,000 50,000 150,000 years etc.
Japan has a museum devoted to Mu, containing artifacts divers collect in the South China Seas.
I am of a mind that Utnapashim came from Peru, considering the circular currents between continents and the fact that there are boat docks on the top of the Andes Mountains (indicating earth changes). Looking at Thor Hierdahl's work on the Canary Island/Yucutan currents one can easily connect Peru and the South China Seas/Ur - especially looking at Pyramid Migration in these areas.
This would also support the idea of very sophisticated ancient cultures.
It is said there is something akin to a Nuclear War in Vedic Literature, and seeing as we only use 3% of our minds, I would think we've blown ourselves into oblivion already, and what we have now is something like the Planet of the Apes going on.
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