A couple months ago I saw a film on the cave drawings of France. I found it very moving and then today on Sciencenews.org there was an article referring to the same subject.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341206/description/Stone_Age_art_gets_animated
I have come to believe in recent years that the human race has not grown smarter over the centuries. The humans alive today are not more creative, more clever or more intelligence than humans have been for thousands of years.
Ancient man has very keen observational powers. They studied the sky, the weather, the animals and the plants. They had skills of healing from plants on near them, they provided for themselves with what was made available in the environment in each location around the world. Today's average college educated person could not even be a sheep herder.
The power of the sun has been replaced first by wind of the sailing ships, the fat of the whales, the coal of the ground, then oil and gas and nuclear power. But at what cost? To us as a species and to the planet that we live on, what have we done to the earth?
We live in an over populated planet with polluted air and poisoned soil. As a species we have tossed away our skills to observe. We as a species are not intelligence enough to understand the cycles of nature and length of time it takes the earth to replenish the sea and or the soil. We, as a species, are not honoring the wisdom of our ancestors or concerned about leaving a planet for the future generations.
When I saw the film on the cave drawings, I felt if a human 30,000 years ago had that skill, very little has changed on the inside of man. On the outside he has learned to use difference energy sources but the soul has grown little.
