Throughout history society has collapsed over and over again either by mismanagement or by overthrow of the ruling class. It’s a natural cycle that we seem to be moving away from- Revolt has been mischaracterized and criminalized in an attempt to maintain the status quo. But things weren’t always like this. edit: I’m not advocating for anything, just stating some observations
Changing the title of the article isn’t helpful
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The impulse to follow big strong loud dangerous people is baked into the our tribal psyche since before we were homo sapiens
The bandits never had to come from outside, they were already the tribal ruling class
The idea of ‘a peaceful village of farmers just growing stuff’ is a very bad shorthand for how complex the tapestry of human culture has been
The first agriculture workers were likely captured slaves
So it’s more accurate to say: A bunch of bandits kidnapped other people and forced them to tend land, leaving the bandits the time and resources to get better at kidnapping, over time the slaves started becoming ambivalent and eventually respecting and in some cases worshiping the bandits that had kidnapped their grandparents, after enough generations are born under the yoke of servitude, it becomes just daily life
Its an allegory. We aint teaching a class on anthropology over here.
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