“Unlocking Humanity: The Surprising Secret Behind What Makes Us Truly Human”
But to sum up, humans have existed for at least a few hundred thousand years in our modern form, but it was only when we began perfecting our systems of government that we truly began advancing at a rapid pace, with such organization critical to being able to do that. And it is perhaps no coincidence that in the last few hundred years we have progressed massively more rapidly, as our systems of government have continued to evolve and begun focussing more and more on systems for the people’s benefit, rather than solely for the elite, as well as implementing systems that balance high minded ideals with practical measures, to limit abuse of power by both the elite and by the majority. The relative stability and individual freedoms provided by all of this has, in turn, helped humanity advance at unprecedented rates.
Thus, while not a perfect system by any stretch, and the road in between has occasionally been a rocky one, in particular owing to the Founder’s choice to not adhere more closely to the idea of “all people are created equal” from day 1, it would seem the U.S. Constitution has mostly fulfilled its very explicit purpose, where it states: “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
In the end, 5,000 years from now when the United States has long since gone the way of the dodo and hopefully even better governments have been formed, it is likely only two things that came out of the U.S. will be considered truly worth remembering for its significance to history- The Constitution, and the true greatest thing ever created by humans- Star Trek the Next Generation.
