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   Bargearse (largess@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 23:46:04 JST Bargearse

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   @TobiWanKenobi

   >All civilizations come to an end at some point

   There are examples of ones that have last looong times eg the Australian Aborigines, some 60,000 years, the Khalari Bushmen, 100,000 years. They collapsed not from fighting mother nature like we are, or like the Khmer Empire did from weather changes but from the intervention of other more greedy men. They were so much more resilient then any other civilisation.

   https://aeon.co/essays/why-inequality-bothers-people-more-than-poverty

   We learned nothing from these amazing civilisations.

   What's unique about them is inequality, it held primancy at all times, everyone was equal. Agriculture took that away (need to "own" land, protect it from others etc, inequality starts with private property ownership ) and was the beginning of the end of us some 6000 years ago, we're just now reaching the final stages.

   Christopher Ryan's book "Civilized to Death" covers some of this.

   @breadandcircuses