MAN’S FAILURE TO THINK DENIES HUMAN EVOLUTION? ASK JOHN STEINBECK

If you want to know more about about man’s failure, read John Steinbeck.

He was born in a short span that brought us Fitzgerald (1896), Faulkner (1897), ( Hemingway (1899), Wolfe (1900), and Steinbeck (1902).

(Turns out I’m not the first one to notice. Hey, Ed.)

They knew plenty about man’s failure. And shared it.

In a more hopeful world John Steinbeck might have written about man’s great success instead of failure.

But for war.

Steinbeck’s Wars

He’s got a long list of wars in his lifetime. So do we all. It’s not normal, is it?

Steinbeck was an early teen during WWI, too old for WWII, then Korea and Vietnam for the hot ones.

In WWII:

At one point, he accompanied Fairbanks on an invasion of an island off the coast of Italy and used a Thompson submachine gun to help capture Italian and German prisoners. Some of his writings from this period were incorporated in the documentary Once There Was a War (1958).

Steinbeck returned from the war with a number of wounds from shrapnel and some psychological trauma. He treated himself, as ever, by writing.

Is Steinbeck a thinking animal? If he treated war wounds by writing, it’s an easy answer.

Steinbeck died in 1968 in New York City a year after Woodie Guthrie.

Does anyone know whether or not Bob Dylan visited John Steinbeck after seeing Woody?

He knew Steinbeck

We all know Steinbeck.

Like Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan was no stranger to the writings of Steinbeck. In fact, he wrote a 22-page essay on John Steinbeck in 1958 when he was in the 11th grade. The folk music scene that was about to explode with the dawn of the 1960s would be characterized by lyrics sympathetic to the common men and women that shone so brightly from the ink of Steinbeck’s pen. Steinbeck’s influence on the songs of Bob Dylan is apparent when you read Dylan’s High School essay.

Go, Johnny, Go.

War Evolution For Man’s Failure

We’re all seeing war evolve in Ukraine, a war to reclaim the past by murdering the present people.

That’s not what thinking animals do. Thinking animals figure it out with their thinking tools, not death machines.

We evolve, though there are questions.

The five stages of human evolution are:

• Dryopithecus.
• Ramapithecus.
• Australopithecus.
• Homo Erectus.
• Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis.

Or:

What are the 7 stages of human evolution?

• Dryopithecus. These are deemed to be the ancestors of both man and apes. … 
• Ramapithecus. … 
• Australopithecus. … 
• Homo Erectus. … 
• Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis. … 
• Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

Why do we wonder why people deny science?

What are the 4 stages of evolution?

The evolution of modern humans from our hominid ancestor is commonly considered as having involved four major steps: evolving terrestriality, bipedalism, a large brain (encephalization) and civilization.

 In a broad sweep of time, the notion of the chimp leading to the Australopithecine, to Homo, to the Neanderthal to the modern American family standing in their driveway is a myth. 

Add all of the numbers up, think about it like Steinbeck, and the sum still isn’t ‘Invade a neighboring country with a democratically elected government to show the world how it’s done back in the USSR.’

There are no math tricks that end with how to lay siege to a fleeing, vulnerable, population and crush their cities to rubble because they didn’t vote for who you liked.

Normal thinking animals work to support life, not death. Man’s failure to know the difference is a black mark on evolution.

War. What is it good for?