The evolutionary stage of constructive action: overcoming muscle power, ignorance and passivity

During most of the evolution, the power holders used their larger physical strength. It was hardly possible to change the difference in physical force between people.

With more education and larger-scale social life, differences in knowledge came to count and knowledge became a tool for power holders to exploit the ignorance of the majority. But that ignorance is on the decline with more education and access to information.

What remains for the power holders is the exploitation of our passivity. Therefore, we are at a stage in the evolution where we are learning by trial and error to use our knowledge, take responsibility and turn emotional behavior into constructive action.