The Evolution of the Average Man

In 391 AD the ruling patriarch of Alexandria ordered the Great Library of Alexandria burned to the ground. A little over 1600 years later a single guy living in Alexandria, Michigan, burned the Great Movie of National Treasure to DVD. While both events were cosmically tragic, the social and technological underpinnings and how they affect mankind is the subject of this article.


The average man is changing as he changes the world around him. We are physically the same human beings who filled caves tens of thousands of years ago, but psychological, technological, and philosophical differences abound. Finding and understanding those differences (or similarities) is the chief goal of this study.

The "evolution" of the average man examines six representative individuals of six distinct periods in mankind's social development. Let's take a look at these six individuals.

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