I wonder if we are the survivors.  A world ending event which wiped most life from the planet and humans had to restart.  An earlier generation escaping the calamity and taking to the stars.  We the survivors generations later.  I still don't trust you and i keep a club for my defense.  I do not feel my species safeguards me from other species in fact it seems to be an internal war of mothers eating our young.  Barbaric we remain competing for best survival and grand extortion.  We punish life in the grinder of hell we raise the children of earth.  They are unloved and unwelcomed.  It is war against the human race and not a single decent soul. For a wise being see the root, history forcing hatred through calender and allegiances.  The children are bonded, prisoners, enslaved to force labor, competing for their food.  This is a sin against humanity, a crime, the genocide of our species which we blindly accept because history will not allow us not to.  We have yet to mature, break our bonds and be the free and equal human being sharing earth billions in our family.  Loving parents and siblings, caring for each other because it is the right thing to do without competition.  Every single life is offered humanity has to give because you are in the care of billions of its most advanced generation to date that we know of.  We have the technology to finally speak to every mother father daughter and son.  They have voices.  They have feelings.   They have needs.  See the individuals.   For we are the children of earth, free citizens, equal, and capable of volunteering to help each other.  Offering its best for a different reason. It is time the species took care of itself.  Uniting the species in collaboration to achieve, not because of forced labor, but love of life.  You must become peaceful if you are to make a world of peace.   Not some government, you.  Can YOU become peaceful? Because that is what world peaces waits for... YOU. You will know civilization when every life has best survival.  Then evolution will follow.  And maybe we could catch up with the descendants of our ancestors.