Civilization is anomalous. Yes.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
405 points (95.1% liked)
Greentext
6781 readers
1860 users here now
This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Pretty sure we had a triage stage during the whole prehistory to get to our point to randomly get an individual violent and cunning enough to survive the wilds and other competitors but helpful and sociable enough to survive within it's tribe.
Crop domestication
Its all about building ontop of the law of adjacent possibilities, which end up becoming an S tier for progress. Of course it started out slow.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Oldest stone axes are like a million years.
We're not the first smart species.
load more comments
(7 replies)
Everything we do is built on top of something else. We needed to build a society capable of supporting industry and learning, then written language, mathematics etc.
Once you have the building blocks of society, everything else comes much faster.