When did civilization begin?

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Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, there was a very famous anthropologist and American anthropologist
archaeologist called Margaret Mead. So, somebody asked her once, they said, when was the beginning
of civilization? And she said a wonderful thing. She said, they found a, in one of the archaeological
digs, she said they found a skeleton of a person whose femur had broken and joined and healed.
So, the femur is the big bone of the leg. She said that is the beginning of civilization. So,
they said what has the joining of a femur got to do with the beginning of civilization? So,
they said, what has the joining of a femur got to do with the beginning of civilization? So,
she said that in the wild, if an animal breaks a femur, that is a death sentence. Because once
the big bone of the leg is broken, the animal can't run. And if the animal can't run,
that animal is dead. It can't find food, and so either it'll die of starvation,
or something will get it. The healing and joining of the femur means that somebody
took the leg and went back to the front yard, and it will come back to its former state. So,
it's a death sentence. So, the two animals, they were actually in the wild, but they were in a
care of that animal and they fed it and they took care of it until it was able to walk again.
So in this case it was a human being who obviously suffered some kind of accident and
broke his or her femur but there was somebody there who took the time and trouble to take care
of them and made sure that you know they were and the femur doesn't join fast it's a big bone so it
takes time so they took care of them fed them whatnot until their leg was healed and she said
this is the beginning of civilization. So my understanding from this and I submit to you is that
civilization is not like what we seem to believe today which they all the fancy sexy technology
we have it you have this AI which can do this and this robot which can do that
effectively the robot is doing what another human being can do with his eyes shut
in a less efficient manner and we are very impressed that this robot did all this
just because it's a machine and so forth so I won't go into discussing that but my point is
that that's not civilization. Civilization is how we treat each other how we talk to each other
how we take care of each other in times of need how we go out of our way to provide for each other
in my research for my book the business of family business I spoke to and I
have read about many entrepreneurs startup stories and one of the startup stories
this man says that she's been with our company for you know god knows from the beginning inception
almost number 30th or something else so as to what keeps you there
and he's not even the highest paid or anything like that he said what keeps you there is the fact
that one day I was away on a sales trip and my child fell seriously ill
and he says that my
boss, who is the founder of the company,
without being asked,
he came
home,
took my wife and my son
to the hospital, and then
when the child
was whatever they had to do, they did it.
And the child had been
admitted into the hospital
and was going to be there overnight
and happened to stay there
for a day or two.
He says, my
boss, the founder of the business,
he said
to my wife,
you go home and
take care of whatever you need to do at home
and I'll stay here.
And he stayed
awake with the child
the whole night,
looking after my child.
And I was away, selling whatever
product I was selling for that
company. He said, now,
that is debt.
As far as I'm concerned, that is debt.
And nothing will take me
away from that organization.
So my
submission to you when I ask myself
the same question is,
what are the legacies that we are creating?
Now, the thing is to understand this, that
this doesn't happen overnight.
That man,
whoever it was, didn't do
it because he suddenly
had a brainwave on that day.