And man said: Let there be rules

Foreword: I am an atheist; which means that I do not hold religious beliefs nor submit to the notion of a being of "paranormal" powers. That does not mean that I rule out the concept of Aliens or other dimensional properties or probabilities.


Being that all men/women have selfish desires, and have been conditioned from birth to rely on others, it is only fitting that men/women should manipulate other men/women. If you are going to be my friend you have to do as I say. We see this everyday and seldom realize it. The cool kid at school that everyone wants to be friends with, or the successful business person that everyone wants to know. People who have desires will cling to those that have what they desire. People with ambition will manipulate those with none into thinking they have some. 


I know that the first settlements of humanity came about slowly (some believe aliens taught us how, I think that just doesn't give us the proper credit), but it had to be a very interesting conversation/posturing that was involved. Grog wants to hunt on the mesa but Brog wants to grow these edible roots he found. Now Brog must convince Grog to stop wondering the mesa and build a shelter with him and his family. But Grog hungry now!


Skip ahead a little bit and humans are enslaving other humans to build pointy tombs for other humans that sit around (pyramids if you didn't catch that). How did the pharaohs convince and army of people, to enslave and even larger army of people to build their kingdoms? Through manipulation that's how. Some smarty figured out that the sun was essential to growing crops. It was already evident that the Sun protected Man/Woman from the creatures that roamed in the dark where man had little defense. Another Smarty decided to give the Sun a "supernatural" embodiment and call it a deity. So he told everyone that this deity spoke to him, and because he had figured out just how useful the Sun was he could fulfill prophecies about crop life. Because he could fulfill prophecies he must be a very special person and he deserved a lot of respect and food. However there would always be people that challenged him wouldn't there? 


Sadly smartys are few and far between, and the not so smartys are usually bigger and more brutish and will do anything to protect the smarty that has already proven him/herself. You can see it in most people today, they love to regurgitate what they have seen the leaders say. Be it church or government, people with no ambition will flock to those with lots because they are "leaders". They want to stick to one plan, just one because that's all they can comprehend. They will lie, cheat, deny, fight, and kill to make sure that plan doesn't have to change. This is mostly because of selfish pride. 


I'm not a smarty, i'm actually just a person with ambition. I have selfish ambitions and some not so selfish ambitions. Mine aren't as great or broad as those that are in power, but they are far more humane.