If you could go back ten thousand years you would find little evidence of intellectual life. There were no bodies of knowledge then, no structures whereby people could collate the things they knew, where they could argue their views and ideas and present an analysis about the world as they saw it. People then lived primitive lives dominated by the struggle with nature entirely without the vast intelligence we take for granted. Of simple facts of life most would have been ignorant. Even the correlation between sexual relations and procreation at one time still went unidentified. Many early humans would have gone through life not knowing that sex lead to babies.

This is not to say that brains were not as evolved. It was just that the knowledge pool as yet hadn't progressed. Throughout the millennia as that knowledge has expanded and advanced to the incredible heights of the modern technological age with all its sophistication we have arrived at a place that would have been virtually inconceivable by these primitive people with the equally large brains. A person then even in their wildest imagination couldn't have predicted the kind of advances human beings would make. Anyone suggesting possibilities even remotely like those which have been achieved would have been given short shrift.

Many of these advances have been brought about by creative intelligence and intellect. Even the most empirical of scientific inventions from agricultural implements to computer chips started as an idea in a person's mind. It is my contention that with respect to emotional intelligence humans are where early civilisation was with its intellectual evolution - i.e at the starting post. When it comes to an understanding of psychological make-up followed by how to act in accordance with that intelligence to maximise personal potentials we haven't left that starting post yet. And I think it is this development which will bring about the greatest leap humans have been able to bring about so far, even greater than all that incredible intellectual flowering and its results.

To repeat the case: I say this because an emotionally accomplished individual as a consequence of that accomplishment is able to make better connections with others who in turn reciprocate. The effect is exponential across personal relationships, communities and nations, and ultimately history. At a stoke quality of life is improved immeasurably. This is how warring and strife is ended, by eradicating these supplementary 'pseudo-problems' that come about from bad relationship. Consistent with Maslow, the assumption here is that the essence of humanity is at root better than it is allowed to be and only becomes debased due to frustration of fundamental needs. Proper kinship and the esteem that ensues are among the fundamental needs identified by Maslow. Evil, he argues, is the manifestation of that kind of frustration. What will bring this emancipation about? Again Maslow's terms are helpful. A movement from deficit needs to growth needs is required which leads to emotional intelligence. From there can be built a value structure with good principles at its heart.

Now when you say something of this order to most people they respond incredulous like there's something weird about you to have such thoughts. You are weird in the same way that anyone ten thousand years ago would have been who suggested the possibility of instantaneous worldwide communication or perpetual motion or war machines so powerful they could wipe out every living thing. But these and an infinite amount of other inventions and discoveries came to pass. Like so, within the realm of human psychology a revolution as momentous as any hitherto in science or religion is a possibility. Indeed I think it is a necessity. It might just take a while like everything else has. Roll on the next ten thousand years.