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Leaders’ Digest from Our Better Angels

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023: Twice a week we bring you informational, educational, inspirational, and entertaining messages. This edition showcases the following topic:

Tuesday Information and Education – For starters, Happy Valentine's Day. Around 10,000 years ago, long before the first Valentine's Day, domestication of plants and animals transformed the patterns of human life from small, migratory hunting and gathering bands to large populations of settled citizens living on the labor of farmers and herders, and eventually organized in cities. As the food supply became more reliable, more people could be fed by fewer producers and some people could spend their time on other things like building buildings, weaving fabrics, making all sorts of useful items, trading those items with people over yonder, studying things, and teaching the young about all of the above.

We have no idea who the leaders of this transformation were because nobody signed their names to any of it. After several thousand years of settled agricultural life and expanding populations, however, the process of cultural evolution took another big leap forward with the development of writing. You can find out more about this cultural evolution at https://ourbetterangels.org/way-back-the-agricultural-and-urban-revolutions