>be hunter gatherer
>look at mountain
>"yeah it's beautiful"
>starve
>plant wheat instead of hunting and gathering
>wheat works
>too much wheat
>need somewhere to put wheat
>build granary
>need someone to count wheat
>invent writing
>need someone to guard wheat
>invent state
>need someone to trade wheat
>invent money
>money works better than wheat
>need somewhere to put money
>build bank
>bank lends money to guy with idea
>guy builds mill by the river
>mill needs 40 guys
>40 guys move next to mill
>40 guys need bread, beer, a church
>bakery, tavern, church move next to 40 guys
>another guy borrows for a second mill
>mill town
>mill town gets a port
>port town
>everyone within 200 miles hears there's money at the port
>everyone within 200 miles shows up
>run out space
>can't build out
>build up
>more
>skyscraper
>civilizational loop compounds
>order a private taxi for your burrito
lmao some Indian tourists are posting videos from Serbia and Albanians are in the comments pretending to be Serbian and telling them to stay in Serbia, while Serbians are in the comments pretending to be Albanian and inviting them to move to Albania.
and these guys have no idea about the Balkan race war theyโve just unleashed and theyโre just cluelessly liking all the comments
@GilberteDSL The idea that friend groups will manage a difficult person the same way you work round a broken stair - it's difficult and maybe dangerous but everyone gets used to it and then if someone comes and points out the broken stair THEY are the one causing the problem by noticing it.
This concept changed my brain chemistry entirely. Every time Iโm anxious I just keep repeating โdonโt suffer twiceโ cuz literally why the fuck would I do that
This is basically what philosophers and anthropologists mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.