Category: HISTORY: The Seeds Were Planted Long Long Ago
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“Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain’t satisfied ‘Til he rules everything” Badlands – Bruce Springsteen What a man wants and what he is willing to do to get it are two very different things. There weren’t any lotteries in ancient times. If you wanted to live the…
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A tribal settlement might grow to become a village and would probably have someone like a chief. If this village continues to expand and either merges or takes over surrounding settlements and villages it could well earn itself the title of kingdom! The chief who manages to convince the population that they are the rightful…
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The world I have envisaged at this point remains tribal and by extension familial. Besides inter-tribal marriage and mob mergers, by force or mutual agreement, even the largest villages had a generational lineage. After enough time these tribes would have something resembling a royal family. You know, the descendants of successful scoundrels. Okay, there probably…
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Before the rise of the first great empires there must have been an era of nothing larger than a great village. Some sliver of time before towns became a thing. Nothing but a spectrum going from hunter gatherers and/or nomadic tribes through fledgling farming communities and peaking with a scattering of big ass villages. I…
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The surviving nomadic/ hunter gatherers kept doing what they did best. Some may have found a nice, secluded space and settled. Some of those may have grown and joined the space (as in taking it up) race. Many remained humble and lived a simple life; for as long as they could anyway. As for all…
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Skip forward a handful of generations and some of the booming tribes will have grown into villages. They would be working out the most efficient use of their labour power and ensuring the necessary know-how gets passed along to the next generation. The better they are at this the more fruitful their harvest. Security was…
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Now we enter the infancy of the monstrosity we live in today. Enjoy as we watch the ancient ancestors of the elites take their baby steps. There was no textbook available on ‘how to fuck-over your peers by creating an air of superiority’. These OGs were literally beating a new path from scratch. Running on…
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Carl Jung called it our shadow. George Lucas called it the Darkside. We all have it, whether we choose to accept it or not. Anger, hatred, greed, fear…the lot. Side by side with love, kindness, courage and compassion. Those selfish scammers are one side of the same coin, or maybe one of those dice with…
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I’m sure that hunter-gatherers had rudimentary ways of ‘saving for a rainy day’. They certainly would have tried to find ways to survive during extended periods of scarcity. With the extra food sources resulting in surplus supply, they would have experimented and improved on their preservation skills. Thus, their ability to ‘weather the storm’ improved…
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Our ever-inventive ancestors have significantly increased their chances of survival at this stage and that usually has a predictable outcome: population growth. The difference this time is that the extra sources of sustenance result in the tribe being able to accommodate more ankle biters. They also have the advantage of keeping these pint-sized assets and…
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