Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, Adam Daniels, L.P. Koch
Sott.netWed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Today on MindMatters we discuss complexity scientist
Peter Turchin's 2015 book,
Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth. Turchin walks us through 10 millennia of human cultural evolution: from tribes and chiefdoms to the first states and empires, to our modern "ultrasocial" states. Contrary to pet theories and many ingenious hypotheses over the generations, the development of large, complex societies was not the result of agriculture or even ideas--the primer driver has been warfare: the technologies humans have developed to defend and conquer, the cooperation needed for both, and the cultural practices and values that developed and survived as a result.
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Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of
MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.
Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's
MindMatters, and is an editor for
Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).
Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for
MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.
Battle, assisting our evolution/advancement, it makes sober sense...a changing climate, the hunt for resources, expansion, raiding parties, cultural differences, to advances in weaponry, economic incentives, fear, blame, revenge, slavery, prestige, influence, the cultivation of disunity...and without doubt, from each adjustment, winners and losers, but, if today is the result of champions, then i'd like to have another look at the also-rans.
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