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The story of a day

Once upon a time, at midnight, men and women had the world available. As far as we know, they stood quietly for a long time; all morning and afternoon they wandered in small groups, hunted with arrows, they set up in caverns and dressed in furs. At six o’clock in the afternoon they started learning something about seeds and agriculture; around half past seven, they settled in cities, in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, etc.

Then Moses came at a quarter to nine. After him, Buddah came in India, Socrates in Greece, and Confucius in China - although they never really met. Close to half past ten, Jesus Christ appeared, just after The Great Wall of China and Julius Caesar. At twenty to eleven, the powerful Western Roman Empire fell and a lot of German Christian kingdoms started out. Eleven o’clock was the time for Muhammad.

Around half past eleven, the first cities of Western Europe began and trade revived at the Mediterranean Sea. At a quarter to twelve, modern states appeared in Europe, where men and women set off to explore the rest of the world.

First of all they spoiled North and South America, then India, and finally Africa. Four minutes before midnight, a revolution which finished Absolute Monarchy exploded in France. At the same time, Watts invented the steam engine in England. European countries became industrialized. Wealth and power made them fight, so two minutes before midnight a great war began and another one just fifty seconds after that. In the last minute of the day those men from North Europe were expelled from India and Africa, but not from North America, where they were settled. In that last minute, they invented nuclear weapons and landed on the Moon; they doubled the world population and consumed more oil and metals than in the previous twenty three hours and fifty-nine minutes.

It was midnight again, the beginning of a new day.

Fte: Richardson, R: Learning for Change in World Society. Oxford Press. 1995.

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