“What do you mean by moral tendencies of the human species? The extermination of fauna? The invention of slavery? The crucifixion? The invention of work? War? [...] I imagine the way of life of men in the Paleolithic era during the winter. The goal of the efforts was not old age, it was not wealth, it was not even the dream of an eventual return to a stillness before his birth. Neither does revenge. It wasn't even about reaching the next year. They were trying to make it alive at night. And in their dreams: to have their mouths full during a great feast, to stay alive until the following spring, to feel the warmth of the first sun, to see again the miraculous growth of the leaves and the berries to be gathered, the animals to be killed and opened with pieces of broken bones or flakes of stone.”

P.Q.