evolution?

"Apes, that's what we get in the classrooms.
Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you.
No evolution or anything of the sort.
For everyone who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans."
~The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon


Don't you find it weird that we keep talking about the advancement of Mankind and the progression of society, yet when we try to look back, we find that we are barely just a few steps from where we started?

It was 1854 when Dickens wrote Hard Times. Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in 1862.

In 2007,
We are still selfish and still greedy.
We are still obsessed with power and with money.
Our society is still plagued with discrimination and with poverty.


Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?

Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

~Do You Hear the People Sing?, Les Misérables

Sorry Hugo, your tomorrow never came...
Sorry Dickens, Bounderby didn't die...