Why only hunter-gatherer

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Why only the hunter-gatherer motif? Since the glaciers melted civilization has ordered itself at least three additional times around growing (when the great river deltas formed after the warming), trading (when overpopulation in these places created simultaneous abundance and scarcity), automating (when we learned to encapsulate power)-- all adaptive responses to major shifts in global constraints. True, subsequent logics include predecessors as special cases of themselves, but look at what you mis by stopping at the pre-riperian!

I think we are experiencing another transformation (hence all of the local regressions) as a consequence of our ability to distribute power via broadcast and digital technologies, and yes, it is "evolutionary" in the truest sense -- well beyond the Vince Lombardi doctrine.

--John Grassi

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