Are We Insignificant

We can get so focused on the here and now and yet we are here for such a short period of time. But in the here and now things change so rapidly, just think of what has happened in the last hundred years. Man has learnt powered flight and made it to the moon. He has developed amazing cures and drugs such as penicillin. Yet at the same time we have developed weapons with the ability of wiping out our entire race.

Yet I still ask are we insignificant, I have looked at the last hundred years and what has been achieved. Yet Boxgrove man first walked the rolling hills of Britain 500,000 years ago. I know he wasn't quite what we would call a modern human as he was a homo heidelbergensis but he was a sort of ancestor. Even if we think of Homo Sapiens the group we belong to, we have been around a awfully long time as it seems we had inventiveness and hunting skills some 50,000 years ago.

All that history and we only really focus on the last 2000 years, if that. We have so little understanding of the past and yet should we study the past to learn from previous mistakes so as to secure a bright future for our little ones?