Cotton1 (01-05-2020)
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
In the state, ancient and modern, but not with foragers where the group is in charge. Foragers might follow a leader but if he or she fails them, becomes too bossy, too self-aggrandizing, the group will take him down with shaming, ostracizing, even executing. Foragers are pretty much egalitarian.
See Boehm's Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. See also many of Scott's books like The Art of Not Being Governed, and, especially for this topic, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. Or MacDonald's Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
I wouldn't either. It's just a matter of creating the preconditions which I think agriculture did but it took millennia for the state to develop after the the first agricultural communities appeared. I guess one can speak to "proto-states" or a concept like that but this is lost in the mists of time. All we can know for sure is when the state as we understand the term is first attested in the archaeological record.
Cropped up.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist