It’s called The Primrose Path

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Primrose_Path

Mike Chambers was walking his dog on a Norfolk beach. He found a flint axe that could be 700,000 years old.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/loan_in/h/handaxe.aspx

Given the choice, the bottom of a cliff with the tide coming in fast is not a place you’d work. For Paul Durbidge and Bob Mutch, however, the foreshore at Pakefield, south of Lowestoft, Suffolk, is precisely where they want to be. Especially in winter, and even more so when the storms are up. Because it’s then that the fossils are exposed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/jan/06/g2.archaeology

“There were actually other reasons in addition to “insufficient progress” that caused the wash-out. One was a loss of interest on my part in flying only level and in very gentle turns. But I had also developed a fear of the airplane. One evening an inspector had somehow dropped a lighted flare down through the flare chute, and it caught the fabric-covered plane on fire. In just over two minutes by the clock, the AT-17 was reduced almost to ashes. That wasn’t a pleasant thing to hear about. So those are the reasons my stay at Roswell lasted only about five weeks.”

http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/mshwp32.htm

Marshall Stelzriede, March 4, 1919 - January 1, 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Tara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Tara

The Flight of the Earls, which in Irish is Imeacht na nIarlaí, describes the day of September 14, 1607 when Aodh Uî Neill (Hugh O’Neill) and Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill (Rory O’Donnell) left Ireland in exile for Spain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Earls

According to Irish tradition, the ancient kings of Ireland were the descendants of King Milesius of Spain. Milesius was the grandson of Breoghan, conqueror of Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Castile, and Portugal, who was also called Brigus or Brian. Milesius achieved outstanding military success in Egypt, and was given Scota, the Pharoah’s daughter, in marriage. When Spain underwent a twenty-six year famine, Milesius sent his uncle Ithe to seek a new homeland, in accordance with an ancient prophecy. After Ithe discovered Ireland, only to be murdered by the resident Tuatha de Danan, his son Lughaide brought his body home to Spain.

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/durack-coat-arms.htm

Evolutionary theory differs from behaviour genetics:

It’s unwise to deduce ethical premises from biology.

But you cannot understand ethics without looking to biology for explanations.

See:

Maths:
Robert Axelrod
John Maynard Smith
(Game theory illuminates why self-interested individual co-operate)

Evolutionary psychology:
Leda Cosmides (cheating causes)

Edward O’Wilson wrote Sociobiology: The new synthesis
Peter Singer attempted to refute in: The Expanding Circle (1979)

People are co-operative and competitive  - see:

Emile Durkheim’s ’social facts’ -  Customs, institutions, nations etc that are more than the sum of their individual parts.

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”

HM Warner, Warner Bros, 1927

Smith was suspicious of “the mean rapacity, the monopolising spirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind.”

Remember, it’s:

“not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or baker that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest”.

San paintings - Matopo hills of Zimbabwe. Dot patterns - cave art. San people were among the first humans - the oldest people in the world?

Dots are part of a complex system of markings that represent life force - potency. An attempt to represent the spiritual dimension - a mistrust of appearance. Religious iconography.

Also they used a long red line through their paintings on the cave wall - to divide the human from the spirit worlds? Arrrgh can’t remember. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmen

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

Also:

What happened to the hot badge?

“And if you are the partying type, all you have to do is don your `Hot Badge’ which has electronic information about your taste in food, music, hobbies programmed in it. When you enter a social gathering, it automatically takes you to other like-minded pe ople who are wearing similar badges!”

http://www.hinduonnet.com/businessline/2001/05/13/stories/141339g3.htm

Alice Lok Cahana - look up her story. Her mother arranging violets - in the ghetto.

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Monday, 22 November 1999

Researchers have dated the two inscriptions to between 1900BC and 1800BC, and have identified some of the symbols as precursors to letters in the modern alphabet, but have been unable to decipher their meanin.

However, Dr Darnell’s discovery, on the limestone rocks at the isolated Wadi-el-Hol, on the ancient road between Thebes and Abydos, has shown that the alphabet was invented in Egypt between two and three centuries earlier.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alphabets-ancestor-discovered-on-desert-rock-738703.html

Admass. This is my name for the whole system of an increasing productivity, plus inflation, plus a rising standard of material living, plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship, plus mass communications, plus cultural democracy and the creation of the mass mind, the mass man.

J. B Priestley, Journey Down a Rainbow, Heinemann-Cresset, London, 1955, p. 51.

On War and Society…
“My own personal view, for what it’s worth, is that we must stop thinking in terms of property and power and begin thinking in terms of community and creation. …We want a world that offers people not the dubious pleasures of power, but the maximum opportunities for creation. And, even already, in the middle of this war [World War Two], I can see that world shaping itself.
” …Property is that old-fashioned way of thinking of a country as a thing, and a collection of things on that thing, all owned by certain people and constituting property, instead of thinking of that country as the home of a living society, and considering the welfare of that society, the community itself as the first test.”
(Taken from his weekly wartime broadcast, Postscripts, 1940)

An inspector calls

The prints, which are 117 000 years old and thought to be those of a woman and possibly a child, are preserved in soft sandstone on the shore of Langebaan Lagoon in South Africa’s West Coast National Park. Archaeologists are worried that the sea and wind will erode the prints and have been pushing the government to move them to a museum.

David Roberts of the government’s Council for Geoscience in Cape Town, who discovered the site in 1995, warns that the wind and waves that cracked open the sandstone and uncovered them three years ago will soon destroy them.

King leans forward. “I’ll tell you something that’s absolutely astonishing. In China, when Mao died, at his funeral there was a photograph taken of all the bureaucrats in a long, long line. But there were four carefully retouched blanks in the picture - the Gang of Four. Underneath, in the caption to the picture, they laboriously listed everybody, a name and then a comma. When it got to the Gang of Four, there were three x’s, comma, then three x’s comma… Amazing. They wanted you to know that they’d gone, and this was a warning: this is what you’re going to get, if you don’t watch out.”

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991130/ai_n14270884/pg_2

Arts: Retouched by the hand of God
Independent, The (London), Nov 30, 1999 by Linton Chiswick

also music

http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2432&State_3041=2&WorkId_3041=11869

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four

“Now for Australia and a crack at the Japs!” says Errol Flynn in the film Desperate Journey - WWII adventure / propaganda