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Dr. Brendan Patrick Mahony's avatar

This is not my reading of the science of societies.

I understand humans to naturally aggregate in communities of the order of 100-200 people and to include a number of leader like individuals and a sophisticated non hierarchical social structure.

Hierarchies are used for conquest and subjugation, an approach only made practical by the agricultural revolution 15000-20000 years ago.

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