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If these guys displayed such obnoxious behaviour in a civilized #egalitarian #African #huntergatherer society, they would be taken down mercilessly with #laughter and merriment -- almost always by older #women.
If they continued to throw their weight about with obnoxious #dominant #male behaviour, they would be taken OUT. Certainly in the Kalahari that could be done by a child with a poisoned arrow. Most likely by a bunch of hunters doing it together.
But if these guys had grown up in such a society, it's extremely unlikely they'd behave like such assholes. For tens and hundreds of thousands of years, women simply selected against obnoxious male dominance.
It is only a recent historic aberration in the life of our species, and most normal human beings know it.
@csgraves @benroyce @sendtherunners @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake
The European #Enlightenment learned of #egalitarian values from the indigenous / First Nations people.
Not even the #Renaissance brought that about.
“We know much more about human nature than we did in 1789. We’ve learned we’re an #egalitarian species, and are good at collective decision-making. We hate rigged rules and biased information. We’re naturals at social harmony. We know about evolution. It’s way past time this knowledge was reflected in our national #constitutions. Time turns a constitution into a Pandora’s box—releasing ‘plagues’ such as bought politics and captured information. We’re forever going after the plagues: our attention should be on the box.”
source: The Mechanics of Changing the World: Political Architecture to Roll Back State & Corporate Power - John Macgregor
Looks like I’m going to have to read/acquire this little gem of a book. Sooner rather than later.
“They even claim to have democratized #democracy, and indeed, they may well have democratized it all the way to #authoritarianism. So, when Big Tech says “democratization,” it is always a #grift, but it is still worth understanding how the rhetorical meaning has shifted in reference to #authorship and #creative work."
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#BigTech #democratization #progressive #egalitarian #oligarchs
https://illusionofmore.com/u-s-copyright-law-not-big-tech-democratized-authorship/
Big tech talks about democratizing creative and cultural…
The Illusion of More"Enter #BigTech and their big bullshit word “#democratization.”
They love this term because, like so many in its bag of rhetorical tricks, it sounds #progressive, #egalitarian, and even anti-corporatist, which is funny coming from the most powerful #oligarchs since Vanderbilt and Rockefeller.
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Great piece from #BrennaHassett
Rather than being too 'simple' and 'poor' to invent rank, #egalitarian #huntergatherers are 'too complex to allow one person or group of people to take charge'.
(Stupid AI generated image shows almost all men hanging around camp, which is in fact totally unrealistic. As usual where are women, children, grandmothers who would be the heart of the camp?!)
https://slguardian.org/the-hunter-gatherer-guide-to-keeping-society-equal/
Here is Emeka, doing a proper job of sharing meat of a black-fronted duiker, making sure his hunting stays good!
This is real #Inequityaversion
Photo: Jerome Lewis
#BaYaka #ekila #shareproperly #Congo #huntergatherers #egalitarian #egalitarianism
What is #Solarpunk and can it help save the planet?
2 August 2021
Nicola K Smith
"Lush green communities with roof top gardens, floating villages, transport fuelled by clean energy and hope-filled sci-fi tales. Imagine a world in which existing technologies are deployed for the greater good of both people and the planet.
"It's called solarpunk. The term, coined in 2008, refers to an art movement which broadly envisions how the future might look if we lived in harmony with nature in a sustainable and egalitarian world.
"'Solarpunk is really the only solution to the existential corner of climate disaster we have backed ourselves into as a species,' says Michelle Tulumello, a solarpunk art teacher in New York state.
"'If we wish to survive and keep some of the things we care about on the earth with us, it involves a necessary fundamental alteration in our world view where we change our outlook completely from competitive to cooperative.'"
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57761297
#Sustainable #Egalitarian #Cooperative #RenewableEnergy #Permaculture #Sustainability #HackYourWorld #SolarPunkSunday
Like always, the path out of the #DarkAges desired by the wannabe God-Kings who own all the instruments of violence and war, with all the men to bear them, is written in the values of Enlightenment left to us since the Renaissance: https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/
The political designation “the left” originated during…
Inani LudibrioIn a poignant coda 'What if...', #DoerteWeig offers a creative intervention, inspired in part by Graeber and Wengrow’s invitation to freedom of form and experiment, in part also by the primarily #sociosomatic experience of #egalitarian living. As a fieldworker who has lived among Central African Forest groups, she asks eloquently what it could mean to gift that knowledge to so many people, to educate whole generations of schoolchildren in what it means to be human.
#egalitarian #huntergatherers #CentralAfrica #education #stories #bodies
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.8
In 'Cancelling hunter-gatherers for the cause of 21st C urbanism', anarchist anthropologist #JamesvanLanen critiques what he sees as a gendered structure arising in #TheDawnofEverything.This counterposes brutish, masculinist, prestige-hungry hunters to more communal, matriarchal early women farmers, busy creating an ‘ecology of freedom’. A whole array of lifeways of non-intensifying, egalitarian peoples have been ‘cancelled’ from this ‘new history of humanity’. Yet precisely these indigenous peoples bear the most sustainable cultural knowledge, and are most vulnerable to ethnocide from farmer expansion. Paradoxically Graeber + Wengrow end up advocating statist, urban bureaucracies in creating a fallacious prehistoric ‘left/right’ divide.
#huntergatherers #nonintensifying #egalitarian #transegalitarian #farmers #states #bureaucracy #history
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.7
In 'Egalitarianism made us the symbolic species', biosocial anthropologist #CamillaPower opposes the idea that just anything goes in our evolution as Homo sapiens. While Graeber and Wengrow say about our speciation that ‘we have next to no idea what was happening’, we can be fairly confident about what wasn’t happening - patriarchy! This hypothesised trajectory of change in ‘dominance’ relations reflects change in brain size through Pleistocene Homo evolution. The very large brain sizes of the period of our speciation are predicted to associate with significant egalitarianism. Our anatomy, psychology and cognition provide evidence for constraints. The evolution of cooperative eyes, intersubjectivity, large brains, a ratchet effect of cultural accumulation and language itself needed stable, protracted periods in sociopolitical contexts of egalitarianism. Gender relations must be pivotal in the processes of increasing levels of social tolerance and aversion to inequity.
#biosocial #anthropology #evolution #brainsize #maternalenergetics #cognition #egalitarian #cooperativechildcare
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.2
@mojo@aus.socialAustralia has long prided itself on its egalitarian roots – tales of POWs sharing resources equally, regardless of rank, have shaped our national identity. But is this ideal of equality masking a growing divide? #Australia #Inequality #Egalitarian #Auspol
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very illustrative article on what can (for the most part) be regarded as anthropological basics with respect to #egalitarian societies as are most hunter-gatherers. But what is blanked out here are the material conditions which couldn't be more antagonistic to #capitalist societies. Under capitalist conditions, inequality and competition are axiomatic. Everyone's fortune can only be made at the expense of others'. In #capitalism, by definition, there's no basis for a #consensus.
So, pretty much 7,000 or 8,000 years ago, humans figured out how to live without rulers, and men and women were equal.
From Wikipedia:
#Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk /ˌtʃɑːtɑːlˈhujʊk/ cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
"Çatalhöyük was composed entirely of domestic buildings with no obvious public buildings. While some of the larger rooms have rather ornate murals, the purpose of others remains unclear.
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"The sites were set up as large numbers of buildings clustered together. Households looked to their neighbors for help, trade, and possible marriage for their children. The inhabitants lived in mudbrick houses that were crammed together in an aggregate structure. No footpaths or streets were used between the dwellings, which were clustered in a honeycomb-like maze. Most were accessed by holes in the ceiling and doors on the side of the houses, with doors reached by ladders and stairs. The rooftops were effectively streets. The ceiling openings also served as the only source of ventilation, allowing smoke from the houses' open hearths and ovens to escape. Houses had plaster interiors accessed by squared-off timber ladders or steep stairs. These were usually on the south wall of the room, as were cooking hearths and ovens. The main rooms contained raised platforms that may have been used for a range of domestic activities. Typical houses contained two rooms for everyday activity, such as cooking and crafting. All interior walls and platforms were plastered to a smooth finish. Ancillary rooms were used as storage, and were accessed through low openings from main rooms.
"All rooms were kept scrupulously clean. Archaeologists identified very little rubbish in the buildings, finding middens outside the ruins, with sewage and food waste, as well as significant amounts of ash from burning wood, reeds, and animal dung. In good weather, many daily activities may also have taken place on the rooftops, which may have formed a plaza.
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"Çatalhöyük has strong evidence of an #egalitarian society, as no houses with distinctive features (belonging to royalty or religious #hierarchy for example) have been found so far. The most recent investigations also reveal little social distinction based on gender, with men and women receiving equivalent nutrition and seeming to have equal social status, as typically found in Paleolithic cultures. Children observed domestic areas. They learned how to perform rituals and how to build or repair houses by watching the adults make statues, beads, and other objects. Çatalhöyük's spatial layout may be due to the close kin relations exhibited amongst the people. It can be seen, in the layout, that the people were 'divided into two groups who lived on opposite sides of the town, separated by a gully.' Furthermore, because no nearby towns were found from which marriage partners could be drawn, 'this spatial separation must have marked two intermarrying kinship groups.' This would help explain how a settlement so early on would become so large.
"In the upper levels of the site, it becomes apparent that the people of Çatalhöyük were honing skills in agriculture and the domestication of animals. Female figurines have been found within bins used for storage of cereals, such as wheat and barley, and the figurines are presumed to be of a deity protecting the grain. Peas were also grown, and almonds, pistachios, and fruit were harvested from trees in the surrounding hills. Sheep were domesticated and evidence suggests the beginning of cattle domestication as well. However, hunting continued to be a major source of food for the community. Pottery and obsidian tools appear to have been major industries; obsidian tools were probably both used and also traded for items such as Mediterranean sea shells and flint from Syria. Noting the lack of hierarchy and economic inequality, historian and anti-capitalist author Murray Bookchin has argued that Çatalhöyük was an early example of anarcho-communism."
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk
#AnarchoCommunism #Anatolia #MutualAid #AncientHistory #Histodon
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42 is an interesting age to be these days.. didn’t used to be
When I say #sarsCov2 is #egalitarian in many ways (obviously wealth has medical privileges) this is what I mean
Kensington Palace said in a statement that she is unlikely…
news.sky.comDID YOU KNOW?
•No one said #AllLivesMatter, before they heard #BlackLives Matter.
•No one championed #StraightPride, until there was #Gay Pride.
•No one cared about #WhiteHistory Month, before we had #BlackHistory Month.
•No one mentions #Men's Rights or #Egalitarian, until there's talk about #Feminism.
Let's face it. You never cared about these things before. And the only reason you bring them up now is because your cozy bubble is about to burst, and the thought of marginalized people having the same rights that you've always been able to take for granted scares the shit out of you.
Well, sorry. The good ol' days, when women and black people knew their places - and Queer was just the dirty family secret no one ever talked about - are over. Welcome to the 21st century.