Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-24994749-20140628223533

You, know I'm reading a book called "The Better Angels of Our Nature" by Steven Pinker.

The point of the book is to show how violence has declines on a worldwide level across the years and explore the factors that cause the decline and who are the people getting less violent. One of the events it explores is, what the author calls, "de-civilisation".

I always assumed that the reason for Renmant to be more technologically advanced than our world despite still showing serious social problems like racism or being organized in kingdoms rather than republics (I know there are still kingdoms and even empires in our world but they are minority and in many cases have taken republic government like traits) was that their history was shorter than ours and the technological advancement had to do with the existence of other elements that in our world do not exist and thus limit our technology (like Dust).

So, maybe the opening narration:

"...we are remnants, byproducts, of a forgotten past."

Reefers to a previous civilization that had already worked out sexism, racism and the like among humans to some extent. Then, there was a "de-civilization" triggered by some natural event that destroyed the existing civilizations and when humans rose again they did in monarchies and social problems like racism arose but towards the faunus like in the past they could have existed among humans.