Very enjoyable read. > ...embedded in prehistoric storytelling ... I think worse, embedded in our very vocabulary. In Dutch for example "community" or "gemein

Very enjoyable read. > ...embedded in prehistoric storytelling ... I think worse, embedded in our very vocabulary. In Dutch for example "community" or "gemeinschaft" translates as (the never used word) "gemeenschap" which besides many vague things also means having sex. When used it mostly refers to location rather than ideas or activity. "club" is only used to describe a group of people with shared characteristics humorously. In contrast, if we are going to sail a boat every detail is enshrined in exact terminology as if it's a DSL designed for that purpose. With the development and expansion of reading and writing our vocabulary "froze" in time and lost much of its dynamic adaptation. > Economic, Social and Political thought since the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction, assumes inescapable scarcity as a fundamental truth, and assumes in-group resource hoarding behaviors are perpetually adaptive. I would extend it to include Scientific scarcity? and perhaps even Educational and Technological? My mind has a hard time fitting the 3 under Economic, Social or Political banners. Then again, under which would one fit the Attention market? > Quaternary Megafauna Extinction (QME) was the well documented, extremely rapid crash in available calories, beginning around 50,000 BC.... If it happened it will happen again(?) despite optimizing for the myth we seem insanely unfit to deal with something like that.