2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Once Friedrich Engels said: "Labor made a man out of a monkey." But I think that a living creature humanizes not only the ability to perform purposeful mental and physical activity, this, and many animals can boast. Humanizes - kindness and compassion.
Millions of years ago, living to 35-40 years old was considered an unaffordable luxury. 40-year-olds died for quite natural reasons: unsuccessful hunting, diseases, rapidly changing climate. If a person fell ill or was undergoing natural biological processes (loss of teeth, for example) and he did not represent any particular benefit for his flock (he broke his leg, for example, and could not run after the mammoth), then his days were numbered. No one will give you a glass of water, they won't bring you a bone, in general, lie down and die on the sly (unless, of course, you are eaten earlier). And, if everything had continued like this, then we would not have been sitting at iPads and MacBooks, sipping our aikos, but we would have run half-naked along the wild steppes and prairies. But something interesting happened. In Dmanisi (modern Georgia), a female toothless skull with overgrown seams was found - this is a sign that a person has lived to a ripe old age. A million eight hundred thousand years ago, a toothless grandmother who had to grind and feed her food? Not eaten, not killed? Comrades, this is the height of humanism of that time! This is how the first act of human concern was recorded. And when they began to take care of the elderly, this affected the overall quality of life of mankind. After all, elderly people have a lot of life experience and know where what grows, how to get what. At that time, there was no writing, and the experience that the elderly passed on became, such a database. In the English-language literature there is even such a term - "grandmothering" - "grandmotherization" in our way.
Keeping the elderly alive, caring and compassionate has accelerated progress. People began to make better tools because they knew the mistakes of their predecessors. I believe that the tradition to respect and honor the old people came from here.
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