If #civilization began again from scratch, what kinds of societies would evolve next time? #Communal, #capitalist. #theocratic, #meritocratic, #secular, #egalitarian, #exploitive? Societies are usually a combination of these types, but do they always combine as we expect them to? Are our choices about the type of #society we create completely up to us, or are we constrained by the environment and circumstance? Tomorrow is the last day I’ll be giving away my novel HUMAN to FediHumans. Visit https://bretthodnett.com/FreeHUMAN.html and use the code ‘fedihuman’ to get your free EPUB!

#Neoliberalism destroyed the US and traumatized the #EU. But that era is finally over. Now let's make sure #egalitarian #keynesianism wins over fascism once again. This is an opportunity.

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.

#notrump #nomusk #nokkk #nofacistusa #anarchism #socialism #OrganizeforPower #egalitarian

https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/become-an-anarchist-or-forever-hold-your-peace

“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.

The first #European #cities #gender #egalitarian?
#Cucuteni-Trypillia

#BlackSea

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04216-1

"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/

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

@RadicalAnthro
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.