@StarProphet
> Those who beat their swords into plowshares, will plow for those who didn’t
@cy
> You couldn't do anything to resist absolute authoritarian tyranny
Graeber and Wengrow suggest otherwise. Exploring the evidence that farming communities, and even cities, that were ...
"... organized on robustly egalitarian lines, with no need for authoritarian rulers, ambitious warrior-politicians, or even bossy administrators."
... were perfectly capable of defending themselves from neighbours that had these, and had methods for suppressing their emergence within their own cultures.
