The difficult narrative of ancient human history, and beyond

Truth can bring success and power and so it seems inevitable that truth does eventually surface, even if  it is unknown or blocked for centuries, depending upon the powers that be, or perhaps the luck of discovery.

Nicholas Goodrick-Clark and others have pointed out that up to the mid-Eighteenth century, European scholars traced the descent of European man from the Garden of Eden and Noah---an astonishing long time. During the Enlightenment a new source of European history was discovered in India, which began a new historical narrative by obscure Irish scholars, the Schlegel brothers in Germany, Sir William Jones, Max Muller, and finally it was incorporated into German nationalism. Discoveries in linguistics and archeology further developed the narrative regarding the Indo-European or Aryan migrations from East of Eden into Europe and into the Middle-east, largely founding Western civilization. This was a big change in the narrative of ancient history. 

With the first flush of the new discoveries of their origins, Europeans felt pride in their ethnic history, after many centuries of being taught only Biblical Middle-eastern history, this pride seemed natural.  But much of the pride that Europeans felt in discovering their ancient history was soon stopped, following the atrocities of World War II, which is certainly understandable. Soon few people wanted to talk about ancient Indo-European history. Political correctness in the form of cultural Marxism took over the academic world, demanding that people be considered all the same and that differences do not matter and needed to be equalized---and the popular media went along with this censorship.

Then gradually and very slowly the study of sociobiology helped us realize that all people, all groups, naturally feel pride in their own kin, their own heritage, and that even basic ethics were created because altruism helped ones own group survive better than groups with less altruism, and this trait was therefore passed on through nature and nurture in culture and religion.

Now comes the understanding---but still not widely understood---that it is the human species itself which needs to be surpassed as we evolve out into the cosmos. We need to love and protect our own groups, states and nations, as human nature and our human instincts intend us to do, but we also need to think and move beyond the human species toward evolving future and better species, all the way to Godhood.

I have personally spent time in each of these stages, but it does seem that people become trapped within the various stages of this narrative.