/lit/ - Literature

Agriculture and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

>>16236147

>>13553294
I agree with his notion that the agricultural revolution was a trap that led us on our current rabbit trail, but the part about "there's NO reason why patriarchal societies are the mode" is either disingenuous or legitimately stupid. You can't have dug deep into history to have seen why matriarchal societies were inevitability displaced by patriarchal ones, pic related for memes and truth

>>13553323
The tl;dr on Semitic arguments is that Jews tend to be nihilistic post-structuralists in one breath and then perpetuate and reap the rewards of strong in-group tribalism in the next. If you don't know what I mean, you haven't been paying attention. This book is written by a gay (probably Reform or secular) Jew, which is why I bring it up in the OP, it's prototypical of that ilk.

>>13150996
As opposed to literal civilizations like the mongoles that mainly ate a pastoralist diet

>>12566125

>>12443540
It's just an allegory for pic related, plus human sacrifice was significantly more prevalent among agrarian peoples.