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A Boring Dystopia
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European nobility predates writing?
Also if you were actually aware of human history before writing, you'd know we had classless urban environments inhabiting hundreds of thousands without any evidence of hierarchy or top -down management, through systems of credit in the absence of money. You'd be more accurate to say that, since before the invention of writing (whatever that means), we were able to construct societies without a ruling class. Question is, what happened? How did we lose touch with that? How did the abstract concept of 'wealth' be able to be converted into power over people? My own opinion is it started around 600BCE when coin was used to pay armies for violent conquests, making money synonymous with violence and dominion.
It's hard being married to an archaeologist that's confronted with evidence that, for most of human history and societies, there wasn't a ruling class. Why then do we agree to a rolling class, knowing full well the violence and instability it causes?
You sent me down a rabbit hole of primitive communism and the Çatalhöyük civilization. Thanks.