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[odcchaz]

Last night my brother Pete and I had a nice long fun discussion about human evolution and advancement from as far back as 15,000 years. He's reading a book that's theorizing a few ways that humans advanced the way they did....some parts faster than others and some hardly at all. Imagine progress was really slow to the point where almost all the continents were inhabited before any one culture really started to take off. Supposedly there was a point in Eurasia where the conditions and plant life were good enough for man to figure out how to cultivate his first agricultural skills. This is said to be the line or jumping point for advancement in that area of the world, and many other places too, but those guys were first. I guess that's where the term "Fertile Crust" comes from. Imagine agriculture as the microprocessor of the stone age. This all leads to the beginning of permanent towns and the rise of cities. If you can grow and raise your own food in the back yard, there's no need to get up and move every week. We also theorized on the beginning of written language but I'm not gonna get into that right now.

Well my point here is that those kinds of conversations are why I like my family so much. Secondly the people I value most in my life tend to be the ones that also hold these kinds of conversations on some level or another, be it art or philosophy.

_Charles