A Call To Women by Suzanne Peters
Can you imagine a world where everyone had to figure out everything for themselves? A situation where nobody could learn anything from anybody else. Languages wouldn’t evolve, any breakthroughs in Math and Science would have to be repeated over and over again. Progress would only ever be able to go so far. And not very far at that. It’s doubtful that every new person would be able to figure out how to start a fire, then how to use it to make goods, and so on. Individually isolated humanity would never advance beyond hunter-gatherers - if they even survived at all. What if we were allowed some freedom - say you could communicate with the people in your community, but no one anywhere else. You would make some progress. People could pass on some of their knowledge and so on. You may even be able to get to where we are right now, but it would surely take longer. What am I getting at? As the famous saying goes, “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make t