Franz Wertvollen. The vaccine Idiocracy (№ 404238)

The UN and UNESCO classify cultural monuments as the heritage of mankind. Not the property of any one nation, one country, one continent. No - as a heritage of mankind.
I am in support of Genghis Khan, or Rolf pedestrian, or Ragnar Leather pants, or Cortez, or any other such figure - they were the property of neither the Spaniards, nor the Mongols, the Norwegians. And the heritage of mankind.
Because it's like the question "who are the best warriors in Genghis Khan's army?" - yes, those who fight well. All.
And Cortez, and Genghis Khan, and Gandhi are the same - all these are personalities. What makes them so - their nationality? That Gandhi is Indian and Cortez is Spanish? - Nope. What they do is that they are Gandhi and Cortez. Just like that.
Therefore, they are like Angkor - Wat, like magnificent multi-meter Buddhas carved from stone, like things from ancient Roman or ancient Greek heritage, like Karnak, like Baalbek. Is it all Greek, Roman, Syrian heritage? - It's a human heritage.
This is not Genghis Khan, who belongs only to the Mongols or Kazakhs, or even only to the Genghisids.
No, Genghis Khan is a universal human heritage. Like Louis 14, like Nero, oddly enough.
I believe that this is what gives our civilization a chance to remain a civilization of people, not pithecanthropes.
And this is a small but very important change in my head. The little switch is , "And we're all human and we have a common heritage."
Here's this change in the head - either humanity makes it, or it goes to (as Carl, the hero of "Trinkets" from the 13th century would say) on the horned one.
And then they will fight each other like in the Stone Age. Thinking:
"What are these strange things so flat? But nothing, if you hit this angle of this strange flat black crap, so you can kill"
That's how people will use iPads.
And not in 1000 years, but in a hundred or two. So we're either making this change in consciousness or it's a grave. And nothing better then, except for this, such an angry, petty, tiny, grumpy humanity is not worthy.
Let's end on a nice note. Total:
Thinking in countries is not something that, last century, this is the century before last. When you have 7 billion, you need a different mindset. You need to think:
"We are all human. And anyone can be whatever they want. You can be born in Japan and fall in love with Norwegian culture and yes, play Vikings. You can be born in Norway and fall in love with Angkor Wat. And it's great to dance these complex Khmer dances better than people who were born in Cambodia. Therefore, let everyone be everything they want to be and everything they love.
And any great personalities, any great buildings - the property of each of us as long as we are people, not worms. "