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184 Success and Serendipity human history eventually became complacent, arrogant, and righteous in their belief that they hold the key to human happiness. Historically, when the happiness did not come for everyone in the community, some people left these communities to form new ones with new strategies and thus new cultures. 2 With each new culture came conflict with the older cultures because the new strategies contradicted the elders’ truths. The struggle of cultures has never stopped and continues today as a natural part of the greater human culture. Whether new or old, every successful culture has some common strategies, while those cultures that have failed or are currently failing are doing so because of failed strategies. Successful cultural strategies include: Cooperation; working together for a common goal. Dedication to learning; openness to change. Everything is caused to happen; no mysteries. Freedom from tyranny; democracy. Let’s look a little closer at each one of these strategies to see what we can learn. Cooperation and Respect While we all hold different perspectives of the world, the one strategy that allows us to coexist with others is cooperation coupled with the respect for other beliefs. Anthropologists believe that this one strategy is perhaps a critical cause of what we know as the human species today. 2 Without this strategy, cooperation in controlling our environment is nearly impossible. Without the tinker, the tailor, and the candlestick maker or the carpenter, the farmer, and the baker, a viable existence is not possible in a harsh land. One of the most interesting examples of this strategy extends beyond the human-to-human relationship to that of our relationships with dogs—man’s best friend. Every breed of dog has 99.8% wolf genes. In the remaining 0.2% there are some genes that control the amount of testosterone the animal will produce which in turn causes domestication. The lower the testosterone, the gentler the animal—dog or human. Dogs are domestic and gentle because they have been genetically bred to be so. Ten to twenty thousand years ago, ancient man created dog by only allowing the most gentle of wolves to stay around the camp. Even more interesting is that with the domestication genes come different physical characteristics such as size, shape, fur pattern, and color. Once these new characteristics presented themselves, humankind bred for the characteristics they wanted in the dog. Proof that mutual respect naturally
Success and Serendipity provides major benefits for both parties is that the wolf is on the edge of extinction and dogs are growing more popular every day. Not only did the dog or what was formerly the wolf follow a successful causal path to survival, humanity benefited from this relationship as well. There are also many examples in human history where dogs have played a critical role in the survival of humans such as the sled dogs of the north or dogs that helped people hunt game to survive. Be it man or beast, mutual respect and cooperation have proven to be effective strategies for millennia. Dedication to Learning If the culture does not include learning new things and holds strictly to the past, it is only a matter of time before it and the people who live within that culture disappear. You do not have to look far into human history to see this consequence. Aboriginal people on all continents have disappeared or are fading away today. Every culture that has focused on learning has been more successful than the ones that do not, but this is also limited by what is learned. If the culture uses the strategy that what is already known is all you need to know, to include ritualistic dogma, and it does not allow the individual freedom to learn new things, then the culture will stagnate and eventually be left behind and die—it is only a matter of time. If you think about this for a moment, you can see this struggle going on today between the ancient cultures of the world and the more successful modern cultures that have a strong dedication to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. As the young people of these ancient cultures examine the reasons why they are being left behind (with impoverished citizens) and see other cultures in the world growing more affluent, these ancient cultures know they will have to change. Causal Thinking Since everything that happens is caused to happen, one of our most important strategies is understanding causal relationships. While our brains are very good at recognizing causal relationships, anything beyond about three causal connections becomes too complex for most minds to handle at one time, so we have learned to utilize various tools to help us understand complex things. While humans have created many tools, such as mathematics, language, and the laws of the physical sciences, we have historically struggled with understanding complex causal relationships. By understanding the cause-and-effect principle and the <strong>RealityCharting</strong> 185
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