School Responsibilities

guidomerkinsrules said
then hard disagree about your hard disagree about my hard disagree - most any psych/sociological experiment will show we're fundamentally social/cooperative. in fact it's hard to imagine our species surviving if we were fundamentally self-interested (basic biology couldn't give 2 farts about the individual, it's built on diversifying the gene pool to ensure adaptability and thus survival) - and supposedly we can live in a fairly egalitarian tribe of up to about 75 or so people (maybe even 200+)
it seems like our big social shift was cultivating grain which allowed us to harvest then store it - at that point, the tribe not only needs 'soldiers' to help defend from outside forces, but also 'police' to protect assets from inside

I completely agree with your post above.

Where we might disagree, and where I shift toward St.Widge's thinking, is this:

At almost 8 billion and counting, we ain't going back to the small tribe model. Given that reality, we must also accept who drives our larger tribes' actions and, crudely argued, I'd argue that animalistic alpha human behavior most widely prevails in that regard. And given that, a mixed (but largely free) market is most benefical to the largest number of humans, despite its many horrendous flaws.

That is, until we murder many of our own and other species, return to tribes of 75-150 people who can't farm on wasted landscape, and find the better angels of our nature once again.... :hihi: