Donato Colangelo’s Reviews > The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity > Status Update

“Human engagements with the biosphere are always strongly conditioned by the types of social relationships and social systems that people form among themselves”. This is from Bookchin, 1992. And it’s so damn true.

We have come to the end of chapter 4 with the most sombre of all conclusions: private property is old and idea as the idea of the sacred. Not sure if a direct connection with religion might be hypothesized here, but a connection of some sort there must be. Hitchens was perhaps right once more when he stated “religion poisons everything”.

As history goes on, the Upper Paleolithic homogeneous “culture” crystallizes from 12000 BC into more local, confined communities that by the Neolithic were recognizable and different on some, or several, cultural aspects. So, now it comes the question: why did this happen? Why people try to set themselves off from other people?