Book: A brief history of mankind

Blank cards are a powerful psychological and ideological breakthrough. Frank admission: huge areas are still unexplored.

Today, people spend a lot of money on foreign trips, because they wholeheartedly accepted the myth of romantic consumerism. Romantic consumerism was born from a combination of two ideologies of modernity, romantic and consumerist. Romanticism teaches that a person must reach his full potential, and this requires the most diverse experience that can be obtained. Open yourself to the widest range of emotions, try different types of relationships, taste the cooking of all peoples, learn to love such music and any. And, perhaps, the best way to achieve maximum diversity is to break with the ordinary routine, leave the usual environment and go to distant countries, where we can "feel" the culture, smells, tastes and norms of other people. We hear romantic myths over and over again about how "new experiences opened my eyes and changed my life.

Some religions - such as Christianity and Nazism destroyed millions of "righteous" hatred. Capitalism killed millions of indifference.

Science is forced to rely on religious and ideological beliefs - in which she draws justification, because of them receives funding.

Empire building usually begins with the ruthless destruction of entire peoples, and the continued brutal suppression of all who survived the bloodbath. A standard set of Builder's Empire: war, enslavement, deportation, genocide.

Empire moving boundaries and an insatiable appetite.

The ancient Romans defeats was not afraid like other great empires, Rome often lost battles, but eventually winning the war. If the Empire keeps hitting, it's not an Empire.

For centuries philosophers, thinkers and prophets in every possible way belittled the money, seeing them as the root of all evil. In fact, they are the highest manifestation of tolerance. Money and demand greater openness of thinking than language, laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social order. Money is the only manmade system of trust, which throws a bridge over any abyss and does not involve discrimination on religious or gender on the basis of race, age or sexual orientation. Thanks to the money people, who know each other do not know and have no reason to trust each other can cooperate efficiently.

Money is a system of trust, and what's more: money is the universal and most perfect system of mutual trust in the history of mankind.

Money is a universal means of exchange, which allows people to turn anything into anything.

Women are generally considered to be better manipulators and appeasers than men, they are famous for and the ability to see the problem from different points of view. Of them could get a wonderful policy and the builders of empires, and the dirty work and battles they would have provided a simple testosterone pumped macho. But that sometimes happens in fairy tales and myths, but in the real world - extremely rare. It is absolutely unclear why.

The more wars, the stronger the power of men.

Culture usually insists that prohibits only unnatural, but from a biological point of view, unnatural does not exist. All that is possible, by definition, natural. Unnatural, violating the laws of nature's behavior simply could not be done, and to ban makes no sense.

Biology enables, culture forbids.