The History and Future of Civilization

In what follows I am defining a civilization as a city based society where the government has the effective monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

                

Civilizations originated independently from each other in various parts of the world, and spread from their areas of origin to become gradually aware of each other. For civilization to originate in an area agriculture has to have begun their earlier. Agriculture begins in the Fertile Crescent. This is what is now Iraq, Syria, parts of Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, and Jordan. Agriculture began there because that area had a large number of wild plants and animals that were useful to humans, and that could be cultivated, or bred to make them more useful. With agriculture populations become more dense because a square mile can support many more humans by agriculture than by hunting and gathering. Population density means tribes develop. These are larger than Paleolithic hunting bands. Agricultural tribes displace hunting bands, so agriculture spreads. Tribes that developed in the Fertile Crescent crossed the Sinai Peninsula, displacing the hunting bands in the Nile Valley, which was highly suited for agriculture.

The civilizations of Sumeria and Egypt each began about five thousand years ago. The fact that there is no similarity in the writing systems of each indicates that they originated without knowledge of each other.

       

Just as Neolithic tribes have a military advantage over Paleolithic hunting bands, civilizations have a military advantage over Neolithic tribes. They have full time armies that can stay in field all year around. Neolithic warriors have to take time out to tend crops and farm animals. Nevertheless, a Neolithic way of live selects genetically for physical aggressiveness among men. A civilization selects against physical aggressiveness. In a tribal society all men fight in the wars. The best warriors have more than one wife, and consequently more sons who inherit their violent inclinations and abilities. In a civilization until very recently criminals were usually killed at the scene of the crime, they died in custody, or they were executed. In some cultures they were enslaved and worked to death. The few children some of them had rarely lived to adulthood. Rebellions rarely succeed. Defeated rebels suffered the same fate as apprehended criminals.

The professional armies that made this possible usually had long enlistments. It was virtually impossible for an enlisted man to raise a family. The few children some of they may have had with bar maids, prostitutes, and an occasional rape victim rarely lived to adulthood. On the other hand, civilization selects genetically for intelligence. Intelligent men usually become prosperous. Most of their children live to adulthood. This is not true for unintelligent men. An additional factor that selects for intelligence is living in a cold climate. In a cold climate people need to be able to make warm clothes and houses for the winter months. They need to store food for the winter.

In the Far East civilization began along the Yellow River about a thousand years after it began in the Near East. It began with the Xia Dynasty. From there civilization spread to the rest of China, and then to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

The first European nation to adopt civilization was Greece, which learned from earlier examples in Crete and the Mid East. However, the Greeks remained divided by city states, so they were unable to spread their civilization in Europe by conquest. By the time the Romans conquered Greece they had already adopted much of Greek culture. They were united; the Greeks were not, so they were able to conquer Greece. They made advancements to Greek culture, and spread this culture to southern Europe, which they conquered. Empires impose civilization on barbarians. The Romans imposed civilization on Celtic tribes that lived in what is now France and England. They were unable to conquer Germany.

The western part of the Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD. The Holy Roman Empire was established in 800 with the coronation of Charlemagne as the Emperor of Rome. The Holy Roman Empire imposed civilization on the German tribes. In addition it included France, and Italy to below Rome. Nevertheless, the Holy Roman Empire was unable to stop the Viking raids, that began soon after Charlemagne died.

Western civilization did not really recover until the Italian Renaissance and the age of discovery, which both began in the fifteenth century. From then to now Western civilization has become the most advanced, the richest, and the most humane civilization in history.

        

Unfortunately, we seem to have become too humane for our own good. White liberals especially are unable to understand the mentalities of individuals and races that are less evolved than they are. A western criminal justice system is only effective for the two civilized races. It is insufficiently harsh for less evolved races, and especially for Negroes. Before the civil rights movement that was understood in the Unite States, and especially in the South. This is why, when a black man and a white man committed the same crime, the black man received more punishment. The assumption was that because blacks have more of an inherent urge to commit crimes, the deterrent for them must be more severe. This is why the black crime rate has risen exponentially since the civil rights legislation was passed.

The following chart demonstrates that European British Commonwealth and Far Eastern countries have the highest IQ averages.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country   

The following website has a chart compiled by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It demonstrates the correlation between high IQ averages and low crime rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Those of European descent and East Asians have the lowest crime rates and the highest average IQ's because we have practiced civilization for at least a few thousand years, and because we evolved in cold climates. Far Eastern nations have developed the second most advanced civilization in the world. They seem to be overtaking Western civilization.

I believe that centuries from now historians will attribute the decline and fall of Western civilization on multi racialism. We have allowed the immigration of races and racial hybrids that have evolved less than we have. For a civilization to thrive, three characteristics need to be typical in the population: intelligence, obedience to the law, and monogamy. These take thousands of years to evolve.

As governments in Europe, the British Commonwealth, and the United States lose the ability to govern well there may be a reversion to tribes. Tribes exist when the government is weak, ineffectual, or does not exist. This is why Iraq, where civilization began, has tribes.

Civilization will continue to exist and to make further developments in Eastern Europe and the Far East. Because the Slavs and the Chinese have rejected the lies of Marxist Leninism and Maoism they find it easy to reject the lies that "Race is only a social construct," and "We are all the same under the skin." They know that diversity is not a source of strength, but of social discord. The growing diversity of the American population is the main reason for the growing polarization of American politics.