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It's just a murder of crows, coming up slow.

  • I think I hold the same position as Graeber, I was just keeping it simple.

    For example that's partially why I said "all" tribes. I agree that it didn't happen linearly, and agriculture wasn't adopted by all groups at the same time. As Marx pointed out late in his life, many tribes had instead adopted a proto-communism that didn't derive from a local implosion of the capitalist order. However the exploitative form of material relations has nonetheless become dominant over the course of millennia. It is obsessed with subjugation and highly normalized. Therefore I think preventing its instances of origination would have led to the development of very different civilizations.

  • At the advent of agriculture and the transition away from pastoralism and nomadism, I wish that all tribes had enforced a collectivist mentality regarding possessions instead of allowing chains of inequality that have lashed out for millennia.

    I think inequality is one of those things that is really difficult to erase once it has already been normalized. It allows for accumulation of power, and then uses that power to fight against the fragmented opposition to itself. I think there would have been so much less suffering if that issue had been nipped in the bud back at the start of "civilization."

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    literally not possible lol

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  • That's not what the paper says is the problem.

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  • Right.

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  • As the argument of population control is one I think not at all worth having for many of reasons, such as, you just can’t do much about it!

    I've often argued a similar line. This topic is notorious for bringing out bad-faith posters trying to shape the narrative. Sometimes it seems hardly worth discussing to me as well. Especially among redditors which is what I was used to for many years. But to not be able to discuss it at all is too much for me as a mod, especially when those who would take advantage of us discuss it freely.

    And it will become reality easy enough if it becomes mandatory and that’s sad enough.

    My concern is that there are still different ways that this can all go down, and that we aren't charting towards handling the crisis in a wise and humane manner. We're basically blindly following capitalists into the void. And acting "naively" (following systemic biases) is not moral or ethical in our position. People are already dying of exposure today, in our local communities and around the world. It is the most disadvantaged that suffers most and it will continue to be that way unless something is changed.

    But I guess if we find ourselves truly not welcome here anymore than it seems we would just have to move with you guys.

    Whatever works best for everyone involved.

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