• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    When i say that there were sages in tribes, I don’t mean that there was just a wise guy. I mean that an elder would basically rule the tribe, because everyone would ask him for advice, and there could be consequences if that “advice” wasn’t followed.

        • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 hours ago

          This is a waste of my time. You aren’t interested or wanting to learn, you have a cartoon definition of anarchy in your head, you’ve made no study of human culture and society, you know nothing of the nuanced differences between various cultural groups that have all been lumped under “tribal” and the complex obligations therein, you have not made a study of anything.

          Obviously a chief is a chief is a chief, and obviously these structures existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Yep, completel trivial to explain the fascinating details of the egalitarian and not so egalitarian burial traditions we’ve found, the decorated disables bodies, sites like Çatalhöyük showing stable and identical houses for thousands of years.