Castle of Indolence

One Thursday, thousands of years ago, a Neanderthal ponders his limitations:

1. Lack of physical strength
2. Incapable of outrunning most predators and prey
   
3. Inability to smell a predator unless it's right under their nose. (at which time points 1 and 2 come into play causing their untimely death)
4. No night vision goggles (especially before Tom Hanks taught them the intricacies of starting a fire).
5. Nagging wives.

Considering the almost insurmountable odds they overcame to ensure humans reached the apex of the food chain and that we've cemented our place there for millenia, shouldn't all humans be leading idyllic Bertie Wooster-like Idle Rich lives (like I am.. ok at least i've managed the idle bit), instead of spending it being cooped up in cubicles of giant multinationals corporations feeling like the middle child in the family of a million ? (and spending weekends watching the latest mindless atrocity unleashed by bollywood). Seriously, evolution and opposable thumbs are over-rated. (Sorry: had to get that rant off my chest)

Douglas Adams says it best in H2G2 : "Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."

P.S: Faith in humanity has been a little restored by Wikipedia. It's staggering that people would volunteer to create such a massive store of knowledge (admittedly dodgy at times), and constantly safeguard it from vandals, with no tangible benefit or ulterior motive.