Low Base Effect

A senior often commented, "It would take at least 50000 years for the society to evolve".

The media hype over last few decades and the surge in visible technological progress (primarily in 18th-19th century with post-world War II phase) has given common man a wrong impression, an impression that MUCH of what mankind had to do has been done, and merely itsy-bitsy incremental enhancements are needed.

Nothing could be farther from truth. The society is still driven by:

- feudalism...the enterprise owners put a pretext of caring for people, all the while keyed into exploiting via long timings at work place, manipulated psychological stroking etc;

- you look at a person's physicals and then decide to relate/ employ;

- talk of CSR is pretty crap;

- democracy (in deed) is a sham, hugely manipulated; and what not.

Medicine has no clue of human body's dynamics; it has learnt to suppress pain, perform mechanical intervention, and this way allow time for the body-system to recover.

Jurisprudence is pretty formative, with no idea of deeper compulsions, and apposite reform mechanisms.

It seems engineers are doing fine (though purse sciences is still nascent, looking at what all is expected).

What is being hinted is the fact that we are, in social evolution, at a 'beginner's level' and whatever happens is significantly tipping; almost like a lagging African economy experiencing a low absolute GDP growth, but high enough in percentage terms. This is not to say what all has been done is inconsequential; it is not. It is quite significant, but we are still afar from the higher echelons mankind can do. Dinosaurs lasted 600 million years, we have lasted 4 million years. We have done more than they could, shall we do even more?