If somebody were to ask you, “Why is it that only humans have successfully created civilisation?”, what would your answer be? Some of you might answer, “Because humans are much more smarter than animals”. Even though you made a grammatical mistake, you’re still smarter than an animal, right? Well, by definition, humans have an average 1Q of 100. Some chimpanzees and gorillas – our closest living primate cousins – have been shown to have IQs ranging from 70 to 90. So although we’re smarter, it’s not a blowout. It doesn’t seem to justify why we’re flying around in aeroplanes and using WiFi internet, while the other great apes are stuck using sticks to fish out termites. So why the big difference? I think the answer is, humans have developed complex language and communication skills. We’ve found a way to pass on information to future generations. Through writing and other technology, we have been able to preserve human knowledge and build on it from one generation to the next. Human civilisation has developed over thousands of generations. The only reason we have any semblance of civilisation is because we’ve found a way to pass on learnt information. In the modern world, we call this... education. We send our kids to school to learn all about the stuff we’ve learnt from previous generations. Without education, there quite simply would be no civilisation. We’d be back in the wilderness cracking open nuts with large rocks. In a word, education is essential to human civilisation. But yet in the modern world, we often don’t treat it like it is. Out elite education institutions such as universities are failing us. Instead of being centres of learning that harbour the greatest human minds, they’ve turned into havens of greed and corruption. eBay Deals & Sales ▶ https://ebay.to/30UxyGE Books on Amazon ▶ https://amzn.to/31pmHFk Buy goods from the US with https://www.bigapplebuddy.com – For $10 off your first order, use checkout/promo code: DAILYRANT SOCIAL MEDIA https://www.facebook.com/DailyRantAustralia/ https://twitter.com/RantAustralia FOLLOW ME ON LBRY ▶ https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DailyRantAustralia:d MY MICROPHONE Rode NT-USB Microphone ▶ https://ebay.to/3iEZK6h IMAGE RIGHTS Bonobo Fishing for Termites, by Mike R assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) Monkey Using Rock to Crack Nut, by Ben Cranke/Getty School Funding Australia, by Queensland Greens https://greens.org.au/qld/schools ADDITIONAL IMAGES https://pixabay.com OUTRO MUSIC Fortress Europe by Dan Bodan (https://www.youtube.com/user/danbodan) DISCLAIMER This description contains affiliate links. If you click on them and purchase something, I get paid a small commission. #education #educati ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFctzlVnuNs

Hi again! It’s your favorite billionaire CEO, Tim Apple! It’s that time of year again. Get out your wallets, tip out all your cash, and send it Tim’s way. The iPhone 13 is here! With a brand new range of colors – Youngblood, Virgin Milk, BLM, Blue State, and my personal favorite, Gay Time Pink. These are all the colors that you’ll ever need in an iPhone* *Note: Colors may become redundant after one year. Tim Apple guides you through all the latest features which will make him a very rich man. Go on! What are you waiting for? Give Apple all your cash today! Buy an iPhone on Bay if you dare ▶ https://ebay.us/igOiOY MUSIC Dance, Don't Delay by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/303/dance-dont-delay Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org #iPhone13 #TimApple #PinkIPhone ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtiBExkjmT8

2020 was a great year, if you’re a masochist. Early in the year, bush fires killed 33 Australians, the aptly named “Black Summer” (soon to be renamed to “Not-so-bright Summer” due to racial undertones). Australia was turned into a post-apocalyptic hell zone. Skies were turned blood red. People wore masks in order to not die. The fires gradually subsided but were replaced with coronavirus. International and domestic borders were slammed shut. People were fighting over toilet paper. Masks weren’t recommended. George Floyd died. Did he die from excessive force? Did he die from a fentanyl and methamphetamine overdose? Did he die from COVID? Doesn’t matter. Black Lives Matter and Antifa saw an opportunity to hit the streets and burn down America. Masks were optional. Social distancing unnecessary. But of course, kneeling was mandatory. Protesters burnt the American flag with impunity. Proud Boys burnt the BLM flag and their leader was arrested. Masks became mandatory. Americans voted. Joe Biden ostensibly won, but he let slip that it was actually Kamala Harris who will become president. All in all, 2020 was sh!t. Keep everyone entertained (Shop fast & free with eBay Plus. T&Cs apply)▶ http://ebay.us/WWFoRy #MiniRant #Shorts #2020Review ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iy6oFhkLf4

It’s time for a bit of so-called truth-telling, the oft quoted term used here in Australia with regards to Aboriginal activism as well as the reconciliation movement. According to Reconciliation Australia, “Telling the truth about our history not only brings to light colonial conflict and dispossession, but also acknowledges the strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures.” Well, in this video, I do some truth-telling of my own. Anybody who has lived in Australia will probably know about these so-called Acknowledgements of Country. “Taking the time to Acknowledge Country, or including a Welcome to Country at an event, reminds us that every day we live, work, and dream on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands.” I’d say that it less reminds people, but rather serves to annoy people. Or perhaps that’s just me. For example, on the Woolworths Supermarket website, on the front page, they state, “We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia.” Obviously, they’re just saying this. They don’t actually care about the traditional owners, because if they truly believed that Aboriginal People are the traditional owners, well they’d give away all their supermarkets which sit on Aboriginal land, which is all of them. But they don’t, because the only thing that really matters to Woolworths is making money… obviously! They’re a business after all. But the word I want to focus on is this one: “Custodian”. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Indigenous people are always referred to as the custodians of the land. “Custodian: A person who has responsibility for taking care of or protecting something.” It gives the impression that without Aboriginal people, the land wouldn’t be able to look after itself, which I think rationally we all know is just not factual. Here in Australia (and I presume elsewhere), the role of Indigenous people has been romanticised. It’s like, without them, Australia would’ve fallen into disrepair. Well here’s my bit of truth-telling: Aboriginal Australians were never custodians… Aboriginal Australians were survivors. They didn’t protect the land… They exploited the land. I’m not even using that in a bad way. “Exploit: Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)”. And I think that’s exactly what they did. Australia has a harsh climate. It would have been incredibly difficult to survive in such circumstances. But Aboriginal people did it. They exploited the resources around them to survive. Indigenous people weren’t looking after the soil, they were digging the soil to look for things to eat. They didn’t protect koalas, they ate koalas. Here’s an image of an Australian Aboriginal hunter from the Port Macquarie region in New South Wales. That wallaby, echidna, goanna, snake and koala you see in the photo, they’re not sleeping, they’re dead. As I said, this isn’t custodianship, this is survival, and survival can be pretty harsh. I’m not even criticising this. They did what they had to do to survive on the world’s most arid continent. And that took skill. I’m not even taking that away from them. Survival is a very important skill – the most important skill! It’s not just me making all this up. This is backed up by research! Here’s a recent research paper titled, “Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul”, Sahul being the name of a paleocontinent that encompassed the modern-day landmasses of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. It looks this way because the sea level was around 85 metres lower than it is today. But when Aboriginal people first arrived, they were met with an Australia that was teeming with life. It was bigger, greener, and full of giant iguanas, kangaroos and koalas. Noting that around 45,000 years ago, research suggests that humans caused the extinction of Australia’s prehistoric giant animals. I wasn’t here then, so you can’t blame me. My point is, Australia was doing perfectly well before humans arrived. It didn’t need custodianship, so let’s stop pretending otherwise. Aboriginal people weren’t custodians, they were migrants who managed to survive by exploiting Australia’s natural resources, just like you and me. PHYSIOGRAPHY, FORAGING MOBILITY, AND THE FIRST PEOPLING OF SAHUL https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47662-1 HUMANS CAUSED EXTINCTION OF AUSTRALIA’S PREHISTORIC GIANT ANIMALS https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14142 MUSIC Allégro by Emmit Fenn ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-13oF45PZs