The American Autumn (en Inglés) - Atlas A Teru

THE WORLD BEFORE THE ICE

This is the last book in our volumes of human history.

Not because history ends here. But because here the four

great expressions of the human plan (the Caucasian

winter, the African spring, the Asian summer, and now the

American autumn) finally converge into a single story.

Before this convergence can begin, let us summarize the

foundations laid in the first three books.

If we had to choose one aspect of humanity that reveals

who we are, it is that we, as humans, are inherently

egalitarian in our social structures.

We demand equality in all matters concerning livelihood and power.

In short, we, humans, value our freedom and self-

determination above all.

We have good reasons for this position, learned through

difficult experiences. As a result, we inherently hate and

fear giving anyone the power to control our lives. All

decisions on matters that concern everyone must be

made by all.

This fundamental human value has resurfaced over

hundreds of thousands of years of world history. It is this

plan that has separated us from the animal kingdom and

allowed us to live together with a semblance of productive

peace, which is a fundamental prerequisite for all of us.

And even more importantly, the combination of our

thoughts, instincts, energy, and hearts has given us

enormous advantages in navigating our perilous journey

through a sufficiently turbulent world, without having to

deal with the ego-driven blind who exploit their own.

Over 98% of our human timeline, this chosen lifestyle has

been carefully monitored and vigorously defended.

That said, we humans are not predetermined at birth.

What happens to us shapes what we carry with us, a

reality that was proven in Volume One.

The people who ultimately populated the Americas

experienced a version of the same fate as those in the

Caucasian winter: generations of harsh and cold isolation

during the last Ice Age, similar to what happened to those

who were to become the global predators of our world.

Yes, the Native Americans also carried the original

egalitarian spirit and a hierarchical fear from the Ice Age

within them, born this time not from scarcity, as at a cliff in

the Caucasus, but from an extreme, life-threatening

environment that required not one specialist, but two for

the survival of the clan.

These experts were both empowered due to their vital

skills.This dual power clashed and danced around control,

essentially reflecting our human struggle between those

who take life and those who protect it.

Another essential aspect distinguished the survivors of the

Ice Age in Europe or Asia from those in Beringia. When the

predators of the steppes finally broke free from their own

captivity, they found lands of other peoples where they

could settle.

However, when the ice walls of Beringia melted and the

first Americans were released, they found two whole

continents, practically to themselves.

Here is this story: how a people, shaped by their own

experiences with the demands of the Ice Age, built, broke,

and rebuilt their codes over fifteen thousand years.

Before their distant counterparts, who bore the opposite

legacy of the same shared trauma of the Ice Age, arrived

by boat and took from them both what each fought for -

nourishing lands and an egalitarian way of life or the

resources of a region, including its inhabitants, to exploit.