what I was thinking of

when I was talking about the contribution of the Arab civilisation to the rest of the world was that civilisational justice seems to give no credits for past contributions. The people of Olduvai Gorge, the Jericho and Catal Huyuk and various Chinese and other African and Indian and American Indian civilisations have all contributed to our present understandings of what home sapiens is. How might America feel in a thousand years, the America of so much medical science, creative liberal culture and humanitarian development if its contribution is ignored and discounted and not recognised for its serious development of knowing whom we are as a world people? Where would we be without our parents and grandparents? They went through war and depression. It is a duty to be thankful for all the good things we have inherited and a duty to learn from the mistakes. Surely that can't be too big a problem?