How Alcohol and Caffeine Built Civilization
PJ Media
by Tyler O'neil, Mar 14, 2017
Choose your Poison (Antiseptic)!
Of the two, alcohol is definitely more important. Imagine if Man hadn't discovered how to domesticate alcohol. We'd still all be hunting and gathering - and a lot more inhibited.
All advanced cultures have developed alcohol in one form or another. In the early days, alcoholic beverages were much safer to drink than plain water.
The impact of caffeine only arrived much much later (15th Century as compared with 16,000 BC for alcohol)
The article though presents a small mystery - did Man begin cultivating for food with alcohol as a by-product, or was it the other way round? One of the comments in this article offers a very plausible answer 😉 :
Key takeaway:
Poison doesn't always kill you - sometimes it can create Civilization.
Choose your Poison (Antiseptic)!
Of the two, alcohol is definitely more important. Imagine if Man hadn't discovered how to domesticate alcohol. We'd still all be hunting and gathering - and a lot more inhibited.
All advanced cultures have developed alcohol in one form or another. In the early days, alcoholic beverages were much safer to drink than plain water.
The article though presents a small mystery - did Man begin cultivating for food with alcohol as a by-product, or was it the other way round? One of the comments in this article offers a very plausible answer 😉 :
Man started farming specifically to make beer. Why would mankind give up a meat diet, hunting and fishing..... for a bowl of barley?
Key takeaway:
Poison doesn't always kill you - sometimes it can create Civilization.
Alcohol is famous for being toxic — after all, it kills 3.3 million people each year, causing 5.9 percent of all deaths and 25 percent of those among people aged 20 to 39, according to the WHO. But research also suggests that alcohol may have helped create civilization
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