for 11 February - DoY 042

Who is us?

Y'know, we must have an awful lot of get-along-ability!  How long is it we've lived in cities?  50,000 years?  Only 10,000?  What?  Only 7000?  (I Googled.)  How embarrassing!

Even so, for most of the latest 7000 years we've mostly kept from braining our neighbors by entertaining ourselves with distant wars!  We've mostly let the few (our armies) kill, rape, and pillage for us, and been content to celebrate their glory.  (In times of austerity, we burn witches and heretics and other anti-social types.)

And for most of us, most of the time, being more-or-less nice to each other isn't an effort.  Sneakily, we even sorta like our neighbors, despite what we say about them.

So clearly, we must have an awful lot of get-along-ability!