Ancestral roots

Today, we’re already moving into the first decade of the 21st century. Meaning, mankind has evolved over two millennium since 1 A.D. and more than at least close to 100 millenniums since the first human walked upright.

Ancestral root veneration, dating back thousands of years, nonetheless, survives to date. In plain untainted form, one sentence describes its essence when used today – “Let’s tell the world how great our ancestors were because we come from that stock and therefore is of that root. However, in history where they failed, let us forget that period”.

Unfamiliar?

Try recollecting the many sovereign nations that have “changed history” by the eradicating of historical fact from text books because they are deemed to be “harmful” to national security, integration and unity.

If we aren’t matured enough to face the FACT that:

1. Everyone’s ancestral roots come from tainted past. Our forefathers were not the most saintly of people.

2. 99.9% of what or who we are today is not connected to a “gene” of good stock of our forefathers.

Then, how on earth are we going to grow as a civilization? How long more are we going to “deny” our ancestors' tainted past (as though it forms our whole humanity today) and how long more are we going to tell the world that its “okay” because even the most developed nations took 300 years to get to their station today.

We forget that we’re in a world that’s increasingly global, that relies heavily upon the online real-time dissemination of information and ideas. They didn’t have that 300 years ago while we’re been “given” the technology as recent as 30 years back. Therefore, what kind of a comparison is that?

Having said that, the earlier we get past this stage of mediocrity, denial and excuse, the faster we’ll grow to become a developed civilization. So what if my forefathers were barbarians or useless sods (which they probably were anyway), I am measured by who I am today, not by someone else who lived tens of thousands of years ago.