brief illustrated history of mankind

That was,....'wrong'. 'Twas funny though!

That's it, I'm outa here.! where's my jacket? . . it's the one with the fringe on it. . .

I was going to say...shocking that the Kama Sutra wasn't in there!

Good point,.....but a lot of it would be less accessible/familiar to western folks,....it might not ring as many bells.

Heh. Point made! +^d

.........make that "rape MURDER".

At the end they could've had an image of a gal smoking a Virginia Slims cigarette to show "You've come a long way baby"

I hope YOU hit the link to the longer version,...........sigh,......
( that was funny though) +^d

Yeah, I did, just thought I would throw a dash of humor in with all the sex and violence, and violence, and violent sex. Mankind could not have survived without humor ya know . . .

Well,....OK then! HEY! I got the joke! "Dash"of humor? (Ouch,...that humor may have caused damage)

Big stick and mini-me.

I sholud have directly posted the FULL progression,....plainly not everyone bothered to actually hit the link,.....I did not anticipate that. Sigh. (Please come back and hit the link when you have the time,...it is worth the time.

I checked it out and even though it goes through more societies it just highlights 1 or 2 aspects of those societies.

I still prefer the other since it covers more stage of development that every society goes through.

For example the 4th figure was the hunting stage, the 5th was the agricultural, the 6th was the industrial and the 7th was the informational.

IMHO it is better to show what was added to improve society at each further stages since every society includes the stage before it.

Those cycles you mentioned stay the same but other aspects are added to make each stage have more options that the one before. More people could be fed by farming than by hunting so a larger population could be supported and so on.

hehe just say more sex at the link.

good point! +^d

Yah,...I have seen what you posted before and liked it. The one I posted has more of a "nothing ever REALLY changes riff to it",....co it depends more on your native pessimism for appeal. In any case,...I was just worried that too many people didn't see the whole thing. I simply did not anticipate the "link disinclined"!

In any case,...I just have a soft spot for this sort of narrative illustration.

Oh,.....+^d

Be sure to look at the WHOLE pageant,....( not just that initial slice),...the illustrator has gone out of his way to express the violent repetitive features of mans society/psychology,...it isn't "immature", or similar,...but rather,...if anything,...somewhat cynical,...jaded,...ironic,......(I would say "hard core realist")

That first little slice DOES NOT STAND ALONE,....nor is it meant to.

War,...rape,...the occasional atrocity,...tech evolves,...(repeat cycle).
( But SOMEHOW we just keep making more,....of us )
I think that does serve to sum up the general trends. You would model the reality differently,....how? ( This is not meant as a rhetorical question. )

beating this to death (no pun,...really)
but while this does not exactly extol " the godlike Virtues" of man,...it is a reasonable character study of the volatile innovative monkey that IS,......us.

basically we breed faster than we kill each other off.