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Before agriculture, our mythology served to keep us in harmony with our environment, but once we started amassing a surplus, a culture of dominance emerged to control it for the benefit of a minority; colonialism and capitalism have descended from that dominion.
Or not. Now go and read The Dawn of Everything.
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Nit-picking. It's more or less immaterial, at what point the turd was laid in the punchbowl; at some point after the prerequisites were in place, a dominator culture came along and dominated. Whether the final nail in the coffin was Sargon of Akkad, or the East India Company, the problem is the same.
What is the recipe for preventing a dominator culture from getting its genocide on, without opposition from a similar culture?
Kimmo
Before agriculture, our mythology served to keep us in harmony with our environment, but once we started amassing a surplus, a culture of dominance emerged to control it for the benefit of a minority; colonialism and capitalism have descended from that dominion, and marketing is devoted to perverting people's natural drives, including the search for meaning, into consumerism to feed the obese few at the top.
Why don't people settle for a simple and meaningful existence? Because it's not available - who's there to welcome them into a sustainable way of life? We swim in trickle-down piss, and take it for water.