Ultimately this seems to reinforce rather than undermine dialectical materialism. “Human nature” changes depending on circumstance. I’m reading “Kindred,” a book about neanderthals, as well as a book about Ötzi the Iceman, and it does really seem as though the primitive communist past was not quite the garden of eden we might imagine it to have been.
Ten or so years ago I visited Gobekli Tepe, one of the oldest manmade structures on Earth. It’s in a very hot and barren part of Turkey, near the Iraqi border. Yet the carvings you find there depict a world of abundance, as well as all kinds of animals which have been extinct in the region for thousands of years. The Kalahari, too, was probably very different one or two hundred thousand years ago.
Whatever makes people who we and our societies are is probably way more complex than climate change->primitive accumulation->capitalism.
There were like three people there: me, my driver, and a dude with a camel. I wanted to photograph the camel but the guy asked me for a few lira and cheap liberal me said no. I couldn’t get that close to the ruins. They were probably thirty or forty feet away. It was still cool though. Turkey has so much history, the ground is (literally) littered with potsherds.
Ultimately this seems to reinforce rather than undermine dialectical materialism. “Human nature” changes depending on circumstance. I’m reading “Kindred,” a book about neanderthals, as well as a book about Ötzi the Iceman, and it does really seem as though the primitive communist past was not quite the garden of eden we might imagine it to have been.
Ten or so years ago I visited Gobekli Tepe, one of the oldest manmade structures on Earth. It’s in a very hot and barren part of Turkey, near the Iraqi border. Yet the carvings you find there depict a world of abundance, as well as all kinds of animals which have been extinct in the region for thousands of years. The Kalahari, too, was probably very different one or two hundred thousand years ago.
Whatever makes people who we and our societies are is probably way more complex than climate change->primitive accumulation->capitalism.
Gobekli Tepe! I hope you raised a beer to those ancients while you were there.
There were like three people there: me, my driver, and a dude with a camel. I wanted to photograph the camel but the guy asked me for a few lira and cheap liberal me said no. I couldn’t get that close to the ruins. They were probably thirty or forty feet away. It was still cool though. Turkey has so much history, the ground is (literally) littered with potsherds.