My sister babysits her grandchildren, and she loves it. She also knows my kind of thinking very well, so she makes comments that are valuable to me.

One of those comments was, “They (her grandchildren) are at that age when they think grownups know EVERYTHING.”

Back in the caveman days, the idea that older people knew everything was the key to the older people’s survival. Older people could explain the whole universe.

The children they had raised by explaining how to get food still looked to them for wisdom after they had taught the young people everything they knew that was practical. After that the older person could have said, “You have learned everything I have to teach you.”

Or he could make up something to teach them. Young people wanted to know all about the universe and the stars and the gods and the spirits.

There were two possible choices:

1) After the older one had taught them every practical fact they knew they could say, “That’s all I have to teach.”

or:

2) The older guy could make up a complete cosmology and ways of dealing with the gods.

There is no record of anyone choosing 1)

Every society has a complete cosmology and complete set of gods and spirits which only the Elders understood.

Later a priesthood took over function 2)

Today the motto of white science should be “One experiment is worth a hundred Expert Opinions.” In our society, the Elders know nothing they cannot PROVE.

Other societies live in the days when Ancient Wisdom was everything.

For us, the days of the caveman are over.

When whites are at our best, if we don’t know something, we say so.

Nobody understands what a breakthrough that is.