Climate made us what we are. Europeans are a disciplined, well organised and moral set of ethnic groups because of WINTER.
This is still a new concept to most people that I speak to today, so I thought I'd post about it, fresh.
In a society that has a season where nothing grows, you have to plan accordingly, plough and sow a year before the harvest to give time for the grain to grow then harvest and store that grain to feed you throughout the winter, cut the grass for hay so your livestock will also have something to eat over the winter, stock up firewood and keep it dry so you don't freeze.
Indolent people or those with low impulse control are weeded out from the gene pool because they are a liability in such a society. They'd try to steal the bread made from the milled grain because they hadn't the foresight or industry to be a part of that chain of production.
We would routinely execute criminals because such societies were always on the threshold of starvation if anyone interfered with that careful seasonal cycle of production and distribution.
Contrast with Africa, the Middle East and India, where you could just reach out and pluck a fruit from the tree all year round. There were no real consequences for lack of planning.
This is yet another thing we owe a debt of gratitude to our ancestors for. Generations of them going back to the earliest farmers of the Neolithic Age, 6000 years ago, and reinforced in every generation and every winter ever since.
I'll be talking about this issue in my upcoming YouTube series about our ancestors (sneak peek on the Western Hunter Gatherers and Neolithic farmers attached), so stay tuned...
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