Jinlin’s Reviews > Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind > Status Update

Why patriarchy is so universal even when early societies were isolated? lack of a fortified theory; physical strength (? alpha male chimpanzee win by building a stable coalition with others)

law, money, gods, nations are all inter-subjective; organizational principles have to live in external mediums because memory overload (not biologically encoded, as opposed to bees); writing (language) was born as the maidservant of human consciousness but is increasingly becoming its master;
complex societies seem to require imagined hierarchies and unjust discrimination;

Agricultural society->1. start of strong sense of possession, wealth -> hierarchy 2. concern about future 3. delayed-gratification
Hierarchy -> again imagined order that is believed to organize individuals into an efficient system => even the concept of absolute equality, human rights (Babylon Hammurabi's Code vs Declaration of Independence) -> universal (?) immutable (?) Neither.

Wheat domesticated human not vice versa;
Agricultural revolution let Homo sapiens can multiply exponentially, stability, ownership;
Currency of evolution is the # of copy of DNA;
Pursuit of an easier life never freed us;
So post-AI and job replacement era, not physical resources but social resources will be what ppl fight for (attention, respect, love etc), comedians, artists, entertainers thrive!

Every group plays two parts in the macro backdrop of history. They are both the victim and the predator.
Any comparative advantage is temporary (well, still you can reap enough from that period of time) and very likely be turned against oneself. There is no way other than adapting quickly

Foragers: varied diet vs Agricultural (farmers) limited
Ache societies => humans can do anything + / - the lower bound is unimaginable

theory is that brain wiring in sapiens to have differing cognitive ability from other animals was accidental genetic mutation
ability to imagine fictional concepts collectively
cognitive revolution - when history declared independence from biology
*Thought: when future historian look at our "artifact remains", it's going to be mostly digital and privatized (ownership insists after our physical death)

what ifs:
several human species co-existed ("too familiar to ignore, too different to tolerate")
Neanderthals exit ~ 30K yrs ago.