The enigma of mankind

The enigma of mankind
~O'Brien to Winston~
'from G Orwell's 1984'
“But in the future there will be no wives and no friends.” O’Brian continued.
“We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party.
There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother.
There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy.
There will be no art, no literature, no science.
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life.
All competing pleasures will be destroyed.
But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power,
constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler.
Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory,
the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.’
We sit in our twenty-first century comfort, and look back upon the 'backwards' centuries behind us, before this last millennia when people crossed seas in boats and spread 'civilization'. Yet what makes us so certain that people of this last thousand years are the first ones to spread so far so quickly? Yes, we acknowledge that various peoples were in the Americas for example, but we seem hesitant to believe that others from the 'Old World' came here before Columbus. Only recently has evidence been generally accepted that the Norse peoples spent a short time at least on the Eastern Seaboard. But what of the scant evidence of Chinese anchors found in the waters off the Oregonian and Californian coasts? What of the Japanese style pottery found in ancient gravesites in Peru? There are also carved-stone heads in the Mississippi valley that have distinctly African features found in old burials. And some evidence suggests an overseas trade route between Europe and the Americas during the time of the Romans.
Now, a map has come into the light; pulled from the dark recesses of a castle in Europe where it has been hidden from view for centuries. This map seems to indicate that European cartographers had a fairly good idea of the shape of the South American continent in 1507, a good thirteen years before Magellan crossed under Tierra Del Fuego. Could it be that these people were working under a set of information they had compiled over centuries of exploration?
The arguments against this are many, yet it seems to me that political considerations have always trumped reality and truth. In fact, politics creates it's own reality, such as is evidenced by modern PC being the new 'Newspeak' of the late twentieth century, having evolved from it's fictional start in Orwell's novel, 1984.
At any rate, science and research tends to bow before the boots of authority, and power trumps knowledge century after century.
Speaking of human movement over the earth, what about accents? Linguist.org has a great article on accents, and the way they change over time as populations reform, consolidate and evolve.
It all comes down to realizing that humans are a most energetic species, and our societies change and evolve. Hopefully, overall, we will continue to evolve in an upward direction, and not devolve into an anarchic, archaic society.