Humanity

In the ancient world of emerging
communities of co-located peoples
anthropogeography now identifies as
ethnic groups specific to geographic
locations in their scholarly studies
in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
where there arose civilizations of local
origins followed by Europe leaving the
world with a legacy of primary historic
achievements and advances that still
now reverberate -- from astronomy to
arts and the sciences building upon
what archaic humanity in its random
genius understood and formulated
from inventing language, the wheel
and forging steel to philosophical
gains in setting behavioral standards
upon which cultures advanced their way
to the future. How strange and how
devastatingly frightening it is to note
that those forerunners who factored
civility into human life now represent
the most reprehensible totalitarian
states feeding on corruption and
endlessly beating war drums as they
devastate their own geographies and
extend the courtesy of resource rapine
to that of others' even as they indulge
in reducing their populations' futures
to that of barbaric, primitive survival.