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Beneath Civilization: Bone Marrow, Kidnapping, and the Birth of the Human Story

Beneath Civilization: Bone Marrow, Kidnapping, and the Birth of the Human Story

Beneath Civilization: Bone Marrow, Kidnapping, and the Birth of the Human Story

Published: May 11, 2025

Maybe we should all just read the Bible—front to back. And then sit with Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Not to compare them like schoolbooks, but to tear the veil off our collective amnesia. Read Sapiens like it’s not a history book, but a mirror held up to a past we’ve spent 10,000 years trying to forget. Read it while imagining the brutal, unrelenting necessity of survival: sucking marrow from bones after the lions had their fill, stealing women and children to continue the bloodline, and calling it natural law.

Before there was God, there was hunger. Before morality, there was mating strategy. Civilization didn’t come out of nowhere. It came after a long chain of desperation. And if we’re honest, much of it was built on trauma: rape, abduction, tribal conquest, and male-dominated reproductive control. That’s not cynical—that’s biological anthropology.

"When you say 'kidnapping children and women,' you're referencing what anthropologists call reproductive coercion. That’s not a fringe claim. It's one of the foundational survival strategies among many early human and primate groups." — [Anthropology Source Placeholder]

This doesn’t excuse anything. But it explains a lot. Harari’s work doesn’t glorify this history—it throws it on the table, blood and all. And the Bible? That’s a direct response to that same chaos. It's a manual for transcending it. It's no accident that the oldest laws in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Genesis deal with blood, sex, theft, and vengeance. They weren’t arbitrary. They were attempts to build order where once there was only predation.

So yeah, when I look at *Sapiens*, I see it not as a neutral account of evolutionary biology. I see it as a cold, clear reminder of what we are *without* moral frameworks. The fact that some of us have survived long enough to question our origins with shame or philosophy? That’s civilization. But let’s not forget what it took to get here.

And maybe—just maybe—acknowledging the horror of our origins is what gives us the clarity to prevent ourselves from becoming that again.

—Killian

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