It is true that I never really had a really serious devotion to the study of history and that's for a simple reason – history is often just one event after another. History is written by some people, usually the ones who prevail. Anyway, history is for the literate and most of the time in history there was little literacy or even none at all. We just speculate and do our best.

I am nonetheless interested in history and while I would not call my expertise high level it is decent enough. So I feel competent to build some theory and today I will share with you my latest thinking about human history. The trajectory of human history.

The basis for this interesting speculation is neuroscience, in particular developmental neuroscience. The hominids are the more intelligent mammals, their brains are large, their cortex is large, and their developmental period is extended. The time in the womb is long but the time spent in development is rather much longer. For the human, the real homo sapiens, the 9 months in the uterus is astonishing enough but the 20-25 years of neurological development – after birth – is almost freaky and obviously very long and totally unprecedented. No other mammal comes even close.

I have divided human history into three phases. Below are several images which describe my basic theory. It was in 2007 that I realized the most important variable in human life is the cost of transmitting information from brain to brain. Communication. How efficiently is this accomplished? How “expensive” is this communication? Lower the cost of transmitting information from brain to brain and you will have an impressive advance of the animal's phenotype and ultimately genotype. The human mammal has clearly excelled at this – first with the invention of the printing press and now with the invention of the internet [combined with computer/semiconductor technology and satellite technology].

Indeed, this would appear to be the reason the human mammal is such a fearsome and dangerous predator/killer – not only of other creatures on Earth but also hominids and humans. Indeed, I have argued that the human animal is the epitome of an animal that periodically goes through bottlenecks, large and powerful bottlenecks. I have argued for some 10 years now that we are the supreme “bottleneck animal” – this is why we are so advanced and powerful and intelligent. There has been vicious competition among hominids and only the most impressive and powerful ones have survived. The rest are gone, wiped out, extinct.

Put simply, our prowess has meant we are able to increase our numbers rapidly – we have mastery over the environment and overcome the challenges we face – and so our population becomes impressively large compared to other mammal populations. We then enter a bottleneck period which features very harsh conditions and our numbers are reduced quite dramatically, perhaps even up to 90%. This is human history, in my opinion. I theorize we have passed through perhaps some dozen very large and powerful bottlenecks in our history.

Our mind, our view of the situation out there, is shaped by our brain's cognition. This is obvious. We think, we speculate, we form opinions, we have beliefs. I am going to argue here that we first formed “pagan beliefs” which were very accepting of the natural course of events. Pagan beliefs did not restrict the human animal very much. Barbarism might be an appropriate description of pagan beliefs. The vast majority of human history clearly featured pagan beliefs. Yes some sort of worship but a very primitive one – with very few restrictions on behavior. Mysticism was predominant. Ignorance was widespread and indeed there was not much else.

Then several thousand years ago there appeared some men who argued that there was only one God – that we had to accept the wisdom or knowledge of this one God. These men claimed to be the special messenger of this one God. Kind of ridiculous but ignorance was still pretty widespread and so the human animal brain was not very powerful. The beliefs were accepted and there was, to put it bluntly, a lot of scamming and deceit. The God Business. Judaism, Christianity, Islam. They had their prophets or wise men, or sons of God. They preached and they worked their flock. A very lucrative operation both in terms of income and also aggression – combat and war. Knowledge was improving, not very much but it was impressive compared to the extraordinary ignorance of the past.

Now we are entering the final run of the brain's development. Transmitting information from brain to brain is very inexpensive – almost without cost. Knowledge is predominant and it is becoming more and more powerful by the day. The ancient beliefs of the past thousands of years are interesting but increasingly they appear pretty much ridiculous. Conning people, scamming them, persuading them to worship a particular God is not so easy anymore. Indeed, it is quite difficult. The development of the human brain is all important. Well, that is a wild exaggeration. Better to say that it is becoming all important – or destined to become all important.

The Germans in Bavaria in the 1920s-1930s were on to something, they were generally correct – they wanted to achieve great things and build a sophisticated and modern version of the Roman Empire. No doubt they were ahead of their time. They failed but I predict their basic arguments will prevail and indeed these arguments will become overwhelmingly powerful and widely accepted. Beliefs they are not. Rather they were incipient science. Raising the achievements of the human animal to greater and greater heights – their main aim. Suppressing the stupid and foolish expressions of humanity. Eugenics will become very sophisticated – a science of eugenics. I will also argue that “development dictatorship” – I coined that expression about 25 years ago – will become widely accepted and implemented.

“Democracy” and “republican government” is a historical relic, a total failure in most respects. Development of the human brain is the all important goal as well as the development of the human “economy” and environment. We will do what is necessary to enhance the development of the human brain and the economy. Any activity or any behavior which depresses this development will be removed or even destroyed – only development will be tolerated. What will not be tolerated is anything that suppresses our development. The images below will help you gain an understanding of my theory and predictions.

By the way, I am having a little fun. You will see below an interview I did with Mr Donald Trump, back in February 2008. Published in WAM worldaffairsmonthly.com. Trump came to me "unsolicited" and wanted me to review his book Think Big and Kick Ass which I did. I asked him for a telephone interview but he would only agree to an email Q&A so I agreed to the Q&A. The result is below. It's pretty good, pretty impressive.