Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth

Ice Age humans and primitive cultures expressed themselves through art, music, and dance as primary intelligence manifestations, demonstrating cognitive sophistication through artistic rather than technological means.

Indigenous peoples and ancient societies across the globe maintained this interconnected perspective with nature, producing minimal waste and living in sustainable balance with environments.

This applies to all modern humans who have internalized the belief that materialism is natural human behavior, when in fact it contradicts most of human history where people expressed themselves through art, music, dance, and spiritual practices rather than material accumulation.

These questions concern all humans across cultures and time periods. Every person grapples with these fundamental questions about existence, origin, and purpose, which is why religion remains persistent in human societies even today.

All humans possess innate curiosity and exploratory drives, though these impulses may be suppressed by social systems requiring obedience and conformity rather than independent exploration.

This affects everyone living under hierarchical social systems who internalize controlling myths about human nature, making them more compliant workers and citizens rather than curious, autonomous individuals.

This myth affects everyone raised in modern societies who accept the nuclear family as the “natural” or default human social organization, when historical evidence suggests diverse family structures existed, often centered around female authority and extended kinship networks.

This organizational structure characterized ancient human societies where women exercised reproductive autonomy. All men in the community participated in childrearing because paternity remained uncertain, creating collective responsibility for children’s welfare.

This strategy benefited women seeking to ensure their children’s survival and well-being, and involved all men in the community who participated in collective childrearing without certainty of biological paternity.

These societies included all community members who benefited from reduced social stratification, shared resources, and collective decision-making under female leadership that prioritized community harmony over individual status competition.

Women across ancient societies exercised reproductive autonomy to manage family size, balancing resource availability, child survival needs, and their own health limitations against the demands of reproduction.

This transition affected all members of society but particularly women, who lost autonomy over their bodies and reproductive choices. Women who previously controlled population numbers now faced pressure to maximize births, often at the cost of their own lives.

This myth affects everyone taught to view human nature as inherently competitive and to accept social hierarchies as natural results of fitness differences, when humans actually possess deep capacities for empathy and caring for vulnerable community members.

All humans possess innate capacities for empathy and compassion, which manifest in caregiving behaviors toward vulnerable community members including children, the sick, elderly, and disabled.

This understanding applies to all humans across history, challenging assumptions that ancient peoples were less intelligent than modern populations. Ancient humans possessed cognitive abilities equal to or exceeding contemporary capabilities in many domains.

This affects all modern people who view history through progress narratives, assuming contemporary societies are more advanced than ancient ones in intelligence, morality, and capability.

Polynesian navigators possessed extraordinary intelligence and developed systematic knowledge transmission methods that enabled successful trans-Pacific voyaging and settlement over thousands of years.