The story of humanity in 309 words
I've been thinking about this subject for a while. How to condense the history and human perspectives of humanity into as few words as possible, with a directional follow-up. This is what I came up with.
First came the survivors; quick witted and careful
Then came the tool users; they started with a stick
Then came the fire users to add value to the food
Then came the hunters and gatherers; roaming the world
Then the growers of food; creators of homes
Then came the townspeople, merchants and traders
Then came the Warriors to pillage the towns
Then came the soldiers and builders to protect the towns
Then came the Kings and rulers by force
Then came the aristocracy to manipulate the Kings
Then came the cities which were safer than towns
With complexity came thinkers, writers, musicians and artists
Then came the sciences to make it all work
Then came the religions to give it all meaning
Then came the laws whether anyone liked it or not
Then came the money lovers, politicians and liars
Then came poverty, serfdom and slavery
Then came the plagues and wars of 5000 years
Then came the middle class paid for its work
Then came the Enlightenment despite the middle class
Then came the big visionaries and the builders of nations
Then came the builders of empires around the world
Next came the egalitarians, the social believers
Then came bigger wars, better wars and many more of them
Then came the great words of freedom and hope
Then came the great gashes in reality called greed, crime and corruption
Then came the tiny thinkers with ever decreasing visions
Then came the pedants and sophists, unable to think at all
Then came the denialists to whom only preferred illusion was real
Then the incompetents, the placemen and pedagogues
Then came stagnation, blindly walking through the years
Looking backwards and sideways, but never ahead
Then came the cities full of the living and endlessly talking dead
Then came silence, unexpected but just
Then came the survivors, quick witted and careful