(June 12, 2012 at 10:23 am)Epimethean Wrote: Actually, over twenty percent of modern true English words are directly from Old English.
That means the majority 80 percent we don't use. Funny how 99 percent of all species that have existed are now extinct.
All of our communications are a reflection of the quite simple, no matter what boarders or languages or labels we set up. They are projections of human evolution. They are human inventions that project mundane evolution. They project our culture and our tribalism and our desire for resources.
If there were a utopia. If there were only one path to success to everyone, even those outside our predilections, evolution would not occur, there would be no need for it. It would be the same bullshit unchanging garden of Eden myth.
It IS important to know our history, not as one nation, but as a species ESPECIALLY evolution. The more we do that, the more, as a species we will see that we are NOT different..