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DOWN IN THE DIRT II: ARCHAEOLOGY

From Tales of Madness Vol. III by Tom Ball, 2011

    Some people say this and some people say that but in fact the reason civilization was invented was to brew better beer and make better wine.
    The oldest remains of wine is from China about 9 000 years ago so just at the dawn of civilization basically.
    Alcohol has allowed a lot of people to cope with life and its dullness, and people should drink more.
    Truth in wine (in vino veritas) and we should name our race homo veritas rather than homo sapiens. Or perhaps homo vino...

    Lie detectors could be improved and used also...
    Most people have a mean streak in them, but if they had to tell the truth all the time they would perhaps act more admirably.
    But of course some would be driven completely insane if they had to tell the truth all of the time and probably people wouldn’t get along so well as now.
    Ours is a race of liars...

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