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Right, the argument for agriculture is that it's a basis for making city states and empires possible, whatever moral value one assigns to that.
by goatlover 4y ago
Right, the argument for agriculture is that it's a basis for making city states and empires possible, whatever moral value one assigns to that.
- readthenotes1 4y agoI read The Columbia History of the World. Well, the first 50 pages. It explained that agriculture allowed people to live in cities, and that for agriculture to work, people had to avoid eating their seeds in the long winter. Or, as it got lodged in my mind -- Delayed gratification is the root of civilization. -- Which saying has been impressively valuable in my life
- joak 4y agoThis is the main topic of James C. Scott's Against the Grain. James C. Scott and David Graeber are both anthropologists and anarchists. David Graeber might have a lot good mind opening ideas but overall I was less convinced by his narrative.