Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the 20th century the 13th. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms …. Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man’s genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves we possess of fear and ignorance. — Leon Trotsky For millions of years, humans hunted smaller creatures and gathered what they could, all the while being hunted by larger predators. It was only 400,000 years ago that several species of man began to hunt large game on a regular basis, and only in the last 100,000 years with the rise of Homo sapiens that man jumped to the top of the food chain. That leap from the middle to the top had enormous consequences. Other animals at the top of the pyramid, such as lions and sharks, evolved into that position over millions of years. This enabled the ecosystem to develop checks and balance...
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