The line keeps moving back with billions of individuals … some holding rifles, shotguns, pistols … others holding swords, spears, maces … then others holding wooden spears or just sticks … then lastly the prehistoric human holding a rock in his hand ready to strike … OOOGA BOOGA!!
then others holding wooden spears or just sticks … then lastly the prehistoric human holding a rock in his hand ready to strike … OOOGA BOOGA!!
According to David Wengrow and David Graeber’s book, Dawn of Everything, archeological evidences shows that human societies were extremely egalitarian for most of their existence (hundreds of thousands of years), and only fairly recently in human history did we start to become coercive and authoritarian.
The current dominating forms of society are an aberration from the norm, but it appears our natural state is cooperation and mutual aid, and there’s nothing suggesting we can’t structure our societies to let us return to that state of being, which is essentially what Anarchists have been attempting to achieve for the last couple hundred years, nearly succeeding a couple times.
The line keeps moving back with billions of individuals … some holding rifles, shotguns, pistols … others holding swords, spears, maces … then others holding wooden spears or just sticks … then lastly the prehistoric human holding a rock in his hand ready to strike … OOOGA BOOGA!!
According to David Wengrow and David Graeber’s book, Dawn of Everything, archeological evidences shows that human societies were extremely egalitarian for most of their existence (hundreds of thousands of years), and only fairly recently in human history did we start to become coercive and authoritarian.
The current dominating forms of society are an aberration from the norm, but it appears our natural state is cooperation and mutual aid, and there’s nothing suggesting we can’t structure our societies to let us return to that state of being, which is essentially what Anarchists have been attempting to achieve for the last couple hundred years, nearly succeeding a couple times.
I was gonna say, the next few in line could George W. Bush, George Bush Senior, Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, etc.