my theory is we've been in a locust swarm for about the last 10k years or more species wise due to land scarcity (the way locust swarms are triggered by food scarcity). There's actually proof our human brains have shrunk slightly in that time period whilst in the prior couple hundred thousand we've been about the same. Something about domesticating ungulates put our formerly intelligent species in a death spiral. I've wondered if it was because humans began incorporating behavior of lower order (i.e. way stupider) ungulates into our primate modes of behavior (I'm especially interested in the differences in how ungulates raise young vs the close body proximity that primates have with children for at least a year whereas ungulates, etc fall on the ground after birth and never are really 'held' the way primates are). The prior matrilineal cultures that are remnant seem in what little evidence is left (Lugu Lake, Picts, Basques) to be way less rapey and so on. The Mosuo don't even have a word for rape in their language...it isn't even a concept.
It’s all such a bore and still all about men and their tedious obsession with sex, violence, power and controlling others. Frickin infantile.
my theory is we've been in a locust swarm for about the last 10k years or more species wise due to land scarcity (the way locust swarms are triggered by food scarcity). There's actually proof our human brains have shrunk slightly in that time period whilst in the prior couple hundred thousand we've been about the same. Something about domesticating ungulates put our formerly intelligent species in a death spiral. I've wondered if it was because humans began incorporating behavior of lower order (i.e. way stupider) ungulates into our primate modes of behavior (I'm especially interested in the differences in how ungulates raise young vs the close body proximity that primates have with children for at least a year whereas ungulates, etc fall on the ground after birth and never are really 'held' the way primates are). The prior matrilineal cultures that are remnant seem in what little evidence is left (Lugu Lake, Picts, Basques) to be way less rapey and so on. The Mosuo don't even have a word for rape in their language...it isn't even a concept.
This is so intriguing to me...patriarchy clearly brain-damaged humanity: "With some evolutionary irony, the past 10,000 years of human existence actually shrank our brains." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-has-human-brain-evolved/
Then there’s Dr Spock advising whole generations to deconstruct birth and natural mothering.