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Again, it goes back to my original point: Some groups decided that they were going to adopt domination strategies and so they won because they were more unethic
by AndrewKemendo 3y ago
Again, it goes back to my original point: Some groups decided that they were going to adopt domination strategies and so they won because they were more unethical.
This memetically reproduces over 12,000 years such that we’re stuck with predominantly unethical growth pattern. In fact, there are many other options, but because dominance has so dominated, its the only thing people can conceptualize as a way to deal with existential anxieties.
This is all discussed in the chalice and the blade, and basically every other anthropological record. Egalitarian groups will eventually be overrun and dominated by property focused “growth“ and domination based cultures.
This is why we have the “turnings “and the political cycle, etc. none of the historical writers writing about these types of things like Polibius looked prehistorically because they didn’t have the information to look prehistorically because Paleo biology and anthropology didn’t exist.
It was only after Claude Levi Strauss that the real shape of human prehistory comes into view.
- nradov 3y agoYou haven't provided any evidence of groups specifically deciding to adopt domination strategies. I think you're just projecting your own narrative onto a period from which we have only tiny bits of archaeological evidence which can be interpreted in many different ways.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoHow many times have I recommended specific reading in this thread that answers that? At least twice. Go read the books