I Personally Am Not Conscious Of My

But This Was The Only Way Of Life That Humans Knew For Their First 6m Years On The Planet. In Giving It Up Over The Past Few Thousand Years, We Have Lost Our Vulnerability To Disease And Cold And Wild Animals, But We Have Also Lost Good Ways To Bring Up Children, Look After Old People, Stave Off Diabetes And Heart Disease And Understand The Real Dangers Of Everyday Life.

In Fact, Everywhere In The World There Has Been A Flux Between Big And Small Societies. Big Political Units Are Constantly Being Formed, Later To Fragment. The Individual Pieces Try To Pull Apart, And Then They Join Together Again. One Sees That In Europe: There Have Been Unifications And Then Dissolutions And Reunifications. So In The Long Run, It's 10,000 Steps Toward Amalgamation Offsetting 9,999 Steps Toward Falling Apart Again. In Businesses And Industries, I Would Guess That's Also True.

Human Societies Vary In Lots Of Independent Factors Affecting Their Openness To Innovation.

It's Striking That Native Americans Evolved No Devastating Epidemic Diseases To Give To Europeans, In Return For The Many Devastating Epidemic Diseases That Indians Received From The Old World.

Some People Have Much More Pull Than Other People. But When I Say That The Public Has Ultimate Responsibility, I'm Not Saying It In A Moral Sense. I'm Just Saying It In The Sense Of What Is It That's Really Going To Bring Change.