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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

According to "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow, if one were in the Americas, it could have been pretty okay. Depending on the tribe, a selfish person could have been exiled and many people's competed to be generous.

Rousseau and the European Enlightenment struggling against the weight of the Catholic Church, may have presented an overly negative view on life long ago. (Source is also "The Dawn of Everything".)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Anyone talking about society 20,000 years ago is bullshitting. We have no records for how these societies operated anything but a superficial level.

    This is Jordan Peterson and Evelutionary Psychology levels of scientific rigor.

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