> Do you really think most individuals in hunter-gatherer societies had true autonomy? Actually, yes I do. It depends on which hunter gatherer society, but the

> Do you really think most individuals in hunter-gatherer societies had true autonomy? Actually, yes I do. It depends on which hunter gatherer society, but there is some indication from Sumerian scripts that before statecraft came a laisser-faire world, where people did not need to respond to a higher power, because one could always choose to bugger off to somewhere else. It only works of course when there is excess food compared to the amount of humans, which is not a stationary situation as humans multiply to fill that gap.