IT’S ALL VERY SIMPLE REALLY. LOOK… OK… So if you can control the means of pr

IT’S ALL VERY SIMPLE REALLY. LOOK…

OK…

So if you can control the means of production you can create a hierarchy and tax it cheaply: fertile crescent rivers, the indus river valley’s hrappan’s, and the yellow river valley’s han.

if you have a distributed means of production that cannot be centralized and taxation is expensive you develop european sentiments.

if you are a pastoral people, migrating, tribal, and cannot hold territory, you make up lies.

It’s that damned simple really.

To carry it further…

If you have harsh winters and decentralized production your underclasses will die off and your mean ability will increase.

If you have warm climates it takes little to survive and your underclasses will continuously increase.

you must develop norms, laws, traditions, and institutions that tolerate the mean.

Ergo, shitty middle easterners, more advanced easterners, and much more advanced westerners

Furthermore,

you cannot ‘rearrange’ the entire conceptual methods of people easily as Akhenaton found out, as the Romans found out, as the Marxists found out, … and as we are finding out today in the west.

The weak love their lies.