The Ladder Of Cultural Evolution

NONZERO, THE LOGIC OF HUMAN DESTINY By ROBERT WRIGHT

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uggggggggh another mothermeeper who doesn't understand evolution and extrapolates it incorrectly to describe something else entirely

evolution does not, as a rule, lead to 'more complex' organisms. in fact, evolution can lead to less complexity, equal complexity, or more complexity.

human society is much the same: while we are at a point that is surely unprecedented, it is not 'better' or 'inevitable,' nor can we say for sure that it will continue indefinitely, or even into the relatively near future.

society has, to anyone with some meepin learnin in they brain, been up and down. one culture may build pyramids while another can't quite figure out farming and dies out.

to say that all cultures become 'more complex' or that it's inevitable or good or whateverthemeep is just silly

This guy may have a screw loose but Lewis Henry Morgan's book (Ancient Society, 1788) sounds like a good read.

Woops, make that 1877.

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