Another excellent exploration of the human evolutionary process (and a slower explanation for those who couldn't keep up with the faster/briefer description).
There is a wrinkle I did not get into, in that some early states were associational rather than autocratic. Such states could still have an exploited class, but their elite dynamics could be rather more open. You get such governments in the Mediterranean, MesoAmerica, parts of Africa, northern India. They could not grow beyond city-state level until the development of representational government. The latter being, of course, a development of the most “Indo-European” of the civilisational centres, medieval Europe.
In Decline of the West (1917), Oswald Spengler predicted that Europe would hold “the sterile male and the unfruitful woman.” He predicted that children would no longer be needed because there wouldn't be a reason for their existence. It should be no surprise that fatherhood itself, as opposed to motherhood, is essentially rudderless and lacking in meaning within our era.
Another excellent exploration of the human evolutionary process (and a slower explanation for those who couldn't keep up with the faster/briefer description).
I really appreciate this work. Thank you. It pairs well with https://ajrklopp.substack.com/p/the-indo-europeans-and-the-resurrection?r=17itk0&utm_medium=ios.
There is a wrinkle I did not get into, in that some early states were associational rather than autocratic. Such states could still have an exploited class, but their elite dynamics could be rather more open. You get such governments in the Mediterranean, MesoAmerica, parts of Africa, northern India. They could not grow beyond city-state level until the development of representational government. The latter being, of course, a development of the most “Indo-European” of the civilisational centres, medieval Europe.
In Decline of the West (1917), Oswald Spengler predicted that Europe would hold “the sterile male and the unfruitful woman.” He predicted that children would no longer be needed because there wouldn't be a reason for their existence. It should be no surprise that fatherhood itself, as opposed to motherhood, is essentially rudderless and lacking in meaning within our era.