I like to share my life story a little bit here and there and I try not to be preachy about it because I don't like that myself ... I don't think anybody really does. I figure anybody who wants to be preached to can go find one on cable TV.
I also firmly believe that all of my fellow men (women) deserve to be heard and believed as what they see to be true. Truth is universal and objective, not subjective applying to only a few the rest be damned.
We can learn from anybody; every single person has something of value to share with the world, it is up to the world to listen.
There needs to be discussion and debate; dissension is part of finding what is right. Without dissension truth would disappear from sight as is said in, "On Liberty," by John Stuart Mill (pardon the paraphrasing.) Socrates knew this and regardless what anybody said, or more accurately with the highest regard of what everybody else said, he would pose his questions and always lead towards the answer.

Some of the clumsiness for that 'speech' was because of my attempt to stay in the first person singular. I am a Daoist personally but I do not want or need everyone else to become one...I would have to push a bunch out of the boat before I reached land...to use my metaphor.

... per capita
so we take a subsistent agarian and turn them into a wage earning urban dweller working in a sweat shop and say what? who has the better quality of life?

Or we never stop to think that another persons (village) experience is just as important to them and even vital for the continuation of said person (village). So we go teach them what we know and what we think is important for their survival ... nyah-saying what they learned in their home (village). And they get a PHD in Physics go back home and stand around with their hands in their pockets because they no longer remember which season it is for which plant. All because we know what is best for them. In my case to make them a White person of Western European descent.

You are correct...there is always conflict. The problem is taking the conflict to the point of waging war. Without conflict there is no need for growth, so we reach stagnation. A seed forces its way to reach the sun and air. Once there it forces its cells to grow for more sun and air but for how long there is a limit to how far a tree can grow and how long ... until it is dead falls over decays to become soil for the growth of another tree.
All civilizations grow some faster than others but they all reach the limit to their ability and stagnate then collapse for another before another comes to take its place.
And within that civilization there are sub-groups, in our case in America lets call them corporations, made up of little-er companies made up of workers who grow, live, then die.
All of this to resolve a conflict call it a need if you like.
One country thinks they need what another country has. So they talk and cajole; trade, buy and steal. As the snowball gets bigger rolling down the hill, leaves and twigs get caught up in it. Gets to the bottom melts leaves a pile of dead leaves and twigs.
People will argue over property lines and whose tree is leaving leaves in whose yard.
Lost is that it started as a disagreement on a single idea.

On slavery and discrimination,
First slavery...there has almost always (the last 5000 years at least) been people who were servants to others in anything after tribal nations. If you were indentured they would pay (housing in a safe location, food, sometimes even support for their families). The longer you worked for them the better the benefits. During raids you gained servants, you treat them well because they treated yours well and eventually they were either returned or became part of the tribe/clan. What we would consider as slaves, in the distant past, were not beaten because there was a certain amount of trust and respect was imbued upon them and there was a common dignity for all men. If you mistreated a person after they died those mistreated ones would become hostile spirits that would ruin crops, fishing and hunts. In later periods, there were a lot more indentured servants and there were people taken to ward off future raids and conquests.
Then came the ability to capture whole villages and take them greater distances to them where they became slaves because there was no commonality between and their captors. Still they had to clothe and feed them because they needed them to be physically robust day in, day out. The greater the distance the easier it was maintain control over them. And using captured slaves to control the other captured slaves.
No it wasn't okay or right but it is what happened but we as intelligent people need to put this behind us and learn to be a society.
And this society, in America, is changing for the better and in some ways towards the worst. The better is because there were blatant wrongs done to fellow citizens. These wrongs cannot be taken back and now there has to be a reckoning and I see this as an opportunity for this country to grow for the better for all the people.
This country was built by war and that war did not end with the signing of the Declaration of Independence; July 4th 1776 was the start of a war ... a bloody war. In some ways that war never stopped. The Declaration of Independence was not meant to be a stopping point with the amendments in the Bill of Rights ... it was meant to be a starting point. And at times it has been it has grown with us. It was written when there were only 14 colonies on a part of one of our coasts. Now we have a vast country with fifty states.
It hasn't grown enough. That does not mean that we should scrap everything and start over. Logistically that will not work; a quorum let alone a consensus would never be reached. We cannot do it with everyone shouting only their own thoughts and ideas, we still need a method of representation: a representation that all people can feel is fair and just: that has equality in its representation for everyone. But in the end it should be one person one vote. No electoral college. We have the technology to achieve this. Maybe it cannot be from our own homes: from our own personal computers, at least not yet. This is the only way we can achieve an honest representation of our people, without prejudice ... without discrimination. But that is politically.
How to do it on a personal level is a lot harder. It is a lot easier to be nonracist than it is to become antiracist. Even our 'color-blind' portion of society. "Oh I am color-blind", "I am not prejudice", " I don't discriminate". Crap! Do you go to their rallies? March with them, right up in front holding the banner? Actively go pamphleteering door-to-door in your nice WASP neighborhood? "Well yeah I am for them, I put 5 dollars in their tin at the grocery store. They were there getting sodas for the march they were going to." "But they never come out to my neighborhood!" "I am friends with all of them at work." "When they came applying for the job at work, I gave them all the chances in the world and then some." Discrimination Is an insidious critter. It sneaks in like a thief in the middle of the night. Ya got your windows locked don'tcha?
The problem is systemic. We learned it from birth. I am no better, I have to watch what I say all the time. I am also a victim of it everyday. I am White and I was raised in an upper middle-class suburban neighborhood, a stone's throw from my Catholic church. But I was a sickly child, plagued by chronic asthma before the days of inhalers. When I got sick it was rush me to the hospital and get me in an oxygen tent. I missed a lot of school, luckily I have an eidetic memory and was raised with books. I was a straight 'A' student. Dropped out of first year high school because I learned so fast they couldn't keep me interested. Went to work and got a GED. Grew my hair out long and had a car at 16. I was skinny still am rather effeminate in appearance with my ponytail. I get along with women great. But then there are the people who I intimidate with my intellect and my ease with women. I learn fast so I always get extra raises at work. Minorities think of me as a scrawny dude so they intimidate me. It has been going on all my life. I was raised to be respectful of women and to be a pacifist. Bullies find me to be an easy prey since I never have thrown a punch.
And I still find myself with some prejudice habits because I give minorities the benefit of the doubt and an extra chance to do what I would do or what I consider as applicable or have what a White person would want to have. But I don't stop to think that I am thinking the same way 19th century Northern landowners thought, that they want what a White man would want; that by giving them an extra chance I am not giving them the chance to do what I do not consider applicable or the chance to fail and learn from it. We have sat back and tried to teach them to be White people of European descent which is not what they want to be.
In college learning anthropology I learned Black Urban Vernacular but that was the 1980's a different time a different place. Hell, in 1934, the National Conference for Christians and Jews (NCCJ) came up with the bold idea of celebrating National Brotherhood Week during the third week of February. That lasted until the 1980’s. Totally different time and place.
So I ask you what do you actively do to change this culture ... this country ... this broken world?

I made good sense to have women who stayed back from hunting and raiding (for what they couldn't get on their own). These women naturally would teach the young the basics of their history, tribal ethics and morals, what plants to eat or more importantly what not to eat, basics of hunting. They were the ones who were the keepers of the civilization's lore and wisdom because they would always be there to teach. You never knew who would return from a hunt or a raid, so you could not rely on them being able to hand down the knowledge. Only the women. And the women of tribal civilizations often times would be the leaders, shamans, and healers. They had all the knowledge to hand down to the next generations.

There were also those with the gift of gab and those that just would not conform or weren't able to. Those with calming, soothing voices who learned to heal the mind, body, and soul.

Alas while it is true that a classless society does not exist and for that matter never has at least not after discovering fire. there have always been people that were better at organizing others (though they did not always achieve leadership), those that just had a knack for raising crops (the proverbial GREEN THUMB), people better at teaching (usually women because the men went off to hunt and fight), There were those better at art (I still cannot color inside the lines), Musicians, Dancers, Mathmaticians