Elle Beau, extraordinary thinking and really well presented too. This reader, thanks you. :)

I just ordered, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by anthropologist David Graeber, and archaeologist David Wengrow. From what I've gathered from reviews, its a deep dive into many of the concepts you presented here.

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard French also dives in as well.

I'm of the age when knowledge moved so slowly, change took generations. I could be wrong, but it seems like the internet is transferring knowledge fast enough to make changes within our own lifetimes (rather than our grandchildren's).

Again, thank you for a well thought out essay.