From Homo erectus to Homo sapiens…
Chapter 7 excerpt from: “applied intelligence — positioning the Caribbean to ride the new economy wealth curve”
Therefore, geography has much to do with the experiences of people and nations, the decisions groups make are always important to the course of their history. As Europe began to become more urbanized and experience population growth, it needed more food and products to sustain its growing sedentary populations. Slavery became the economic tool for European expansion and prosperity. Christianity and white supremacy ideology emerged and backed the slave trade, institutions were supportive of the benefits slavery brought with it.
Therefore, a stable growing agricultural food production resource was essential for expanding European populations — successful sedentary societies need to develop strong food systems to ensure growth. Raw materials are therefore required to make foods, goods, and products, then use the surplus to engage in trade and commerce to create profit. The slave plantation system in the Caribbean was the cornerstone of European economic expansion and profit. Profit led to reinvestment and then to wealth creation ecosystems for them only, wealth led to geopolitical conquest, the invocation of privilege into power. The slave trade, plantation system, and colonialism effectively served the economic expansion needs of Europe.
Nevertheless, when all is said and done, we still can’t answer the question posed earlier in this chapter, as to why Africa didn’t develop as Eurasia did? Despite its technical head-start in civilization. The original Homo erectus and Homo sapiens came from East Africa science tells us, yet we still cannot give a good explanation as to why Africa was unable to effectively utilize that head start? So, we’ll let evolutionary biologists continue to study that. For Black people, let’s not dwell on things and questions like that, let us not search for excuses or irrational rationale, focus instead on taking responsibility for our own lives in the present. Stay in the here and now, stay away from those emotional and distractive stories based in racism as to why or why not Africa did not develop as Eurasia did. That discussion doesn’t help our current situation any. We are talking about 7 million years of evolution, but only about 50 000 years of an accelerated “leap-forward” in the evolutionary process from Homo erectus to Homo Sapiens. The answer rests in science, things that we most likely don’t know and haven’t any scientific evidence to give proper explanations to.
Many things about the development of the universe/civilization we just don’t know and most likely will never know, we can only speculate and create theories about it, but Black populations of the Caribbean must give no oxygen to theories, we must only deal with distinguishing what’s real or what’s not real. We must avoid our very human tendency to make up or believe in stories to give narrative explanations to what we do not understand. This is not helpful, it is harmful.
We’re in the 21st century now, and for Black populations of the Caribbean — people of African ancestry, the most important thing to do right now is to stabilize our thinking methodology in sound logic and truth-seeking. As you’ve seen, by the thousands of years in the making of the modern Homo sapiens, and from the perspective of time, our own time in the universe, four hundred years or so are merely equivalent to fractions of seconds in time. Therefore, think mathematically and quantitatively, emotion is your enemy, every move matters, accordingly, what matters most is what you do now not what you say! So, stand up straight, firm up your back and make those fractions of seconds count because that’s all you going to get.
Take heed of historical lessons regarding societal growth and prosperity — technological adaptation must be priority #1. If Caribbean populations are not currently aligning to the new global economy, it will surely be done in by it, again! Eurasia keeps doing it to you. From early in human evolution, the basis of every rising-to-prosperity civilization has been through agriculture, and food production systems, which led to the development of economical specialization in sedentary societies, leading to other value-creating specializations which led to broader economic expansions. This was how societies have grown over time, there can be no debate about that. Eurasia accelerated in leaps and bounds because they were able to effectively utilize technology and innovation, create wealth and utilized geopolitical power. All of which stemmed from the natural world — agriculture production…then broadened out to more specialized economic activity.
The formula has not changed, only time has — the innovation and technology. But the application of knowledge and entrepreneurial led production remains the underlying factor in creating wealth. Irrespective of time and place. Therefore, it is a matter of proper thinking, focused knowledge acquisition, strategy, tactics, and execution; all of which are fundamentally necessary to the sophistication of self-preservation, first to survive and then to thrive in the universe. So, for Caribbean populations, stop always being distracted by academic top-down development nonsense, which has no practical application in the real world, wake up and examine the history of prosperous and powerful civilizations, and execute with similar first principles relative to time and place. Break the dependency culture, this fragile identity will only continue to ensure that we remain at the bottom rungs of the global economy. Wilfully ignorant and unable to ride the global wealth curve. Happening now.
