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go back to living in small scale communities able to survive off the land This basically amounts to a political unit unilaterally disarming itself -- purposefu
by stcredzero 4y ago
go back to living in small scale communities able to survive off the land
This basically amounts to a political unit unilaterally disarming itself -- purposefully making itself weaker than the next political unit willing to be larger and use more resources. History is rife with examples of what happens after that.
- namaria 4y agoThis isn't the first iteration of civilization and it won't last forever. We will cycle through other states again. And again.
- stcredzero 4y agoIf you do a quick survey of all of those iterations, going back thousands of years, you'll find that communal forms of living either: 1) Are small, stay small, and continue to exist because they are isolated for a time. 2) Are actually under-girded by a hierarchical authoritarian structure.
- namaria 4y agoConsidering the astonishing diversity anthropology found in a century I'd say you're underestimating how much might have happened in 30 millennia since the last glacial maximum and now. We literally just found Gobleki Tepe and dozens of similar sites around it, it's almost 6 thousand years too early in terms of complexity. And modern humans have been around for a hundred times as long.
- stcredzero 4y agoSo the best you can do, is point to hazy things we don't have the full information for. What does the historical record, for which we have more information say?
- namaria 4y ago>If you do a quick survey of all of those iterations, going back thousands of years, you'll find that Burden is on you to provide evidence for your claims. I'm merely stating that things in anthropology and archeology are way more nuanced then you'd think from the outside.
- stcredzero 4y agoBurden is on you to provide evidence for your claims. The weight of evidence is against you. Burden is on you.