Vladimir Putin’s early exit from the G20 gathering in Australia is in the news. Apparently, he was snubbed by everyone, and thus he decided to leave as early as he could. Many of the accounts of his departure are kind of victorious, too. The likes of Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, and David Cameron, who stayed at the gathering till the end, are perceived as the winners. The fact that they have failed to talk to Putin while they had a chance to do so is not even mentioned. He was shamed into leaving, and that is now perceived as a good thing. But he is human, too. And he is likely to retaliate one way or another, and to everyone else’s detriment. This is entirely forgotten for the time being. In short, G20 sounds like a kindergarten gathering rather than what it is purported to be—the group of twenty major economies in the world represented by their prime ministers and central bank governors. For better or worse, the kindergarten behavior at the meeting is an index of human evolution to date. By comparison with a mature human being of, say, twenty-five years of age, now we are somewhere between the ages of three and five at best. There are about four times that age yet to go to maturity. Which would put it at around half a million years, I reckon.