Rade humano papachango. Oh, What's up everybody? This is bonus content. This is the bonus content. This is the me reading and commenting on an article I just

posted a couple days ago the ancient roots of modern politics part one.

I don't have part two in mind but I'm sure something will occur to me because

there are so many interesting things to say about the ancient roots of our political thinking of how we look at the distribution of wealth and power and authority and all these things and what we see is threatening, what we don't.

And I tried to lay the groundwork in this article for how basically what's

before us right now if you're paying attention to American politics this debate

between the Democrats who just finished their convention talking about

inclusion and joy and this sort of optimistic

interdependent in a good way we We're all in this together, you know, we cooperate, we welcome immigrants, we honor and respect women, we take care of children. We take care of each other. This whole ethos that the Democratic Party is attempting to exemplify or embody or co-opt depending on how cynical your view of politics

is, plays out against the Republican approach, which is very, you know, the

world's a dangerous place. You can't fuck around with immigrants. They're poisoning the blood of the nation.

You know, these marauders coming from south of the border stealing our jobs and raping our

women and it's a very threat-based sort of I don't want to say masculine because I think that gets into another level of this conversation,

like what is masculine and who gets to define it and all that kind of stuff.

But it's a very kind of angry,

angry, militant, us versus them kind of approach.

And my point in writing this article was to show that the latter approach, this us versus them,

what's mine is mine, keep your hands off my stuff that's a very

post agricultural way of looking at life so it goes back 10,000 years to the first settled agriculturalists who had land that they owned animals that they owned. It's an expansionist system so you always

need more land, more water, population is growing so you have to fight people and take their land and push them

foragers off their

Tribal lands so that you can farm it, you know, and it went from the Fertile Crescent 10,000 years ago,

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