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you're talking about a liberal society where the two parties available both operate in extremely pro-corporate / "neoliberal" ways, and their corporate owner co
by wahnfrieden 4y ago
you're talking about a liberal society where the two parties available both operate in extremely pro-corporate / "neoliberal" ways, and their corporate owner constituents (who now author our laws) want anything but for society to find a common enemy in them. of course the day to day politicking, narratives, and coverage are often gestural nonsense
this isn't a species-wide thing and definitely overstates the inevitability of these structures. you might be interested in recent wengrow/graeber research like the dawn of everything or their papers.
- adamrezich 4y ago> this isn't a species-wide thing and definitely overstates the inevitability of these structures. well between what I described above and straight-up totalitarianism that covers more or less the majority of the population of the planet does it not
- wahnfrieden 4y agoWell the contrary cases are what the recent anthro/archaeological research is showing. And this is for societies that are well beyond Dunbar’s number, after discovery of agriculture. You have a capitalist realist viewpoint it seems and are behind on anthropology