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Saving Civilization: Healthcare, Tech, Democracy, & More (w/Daniel Schmachtenberger)

The ZDoggMD Show

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The Plough and the Evolution of Humanity

Before the plough a societies tended to be very interesting. They had maternal, female gods. Women would actually do a lot of the farming and stuff because they could. And it played to their strength at the time. Then the plough gets invented - this here's a technological thing. Now several things happen. First of all, you can use an animal to pull the plough which now changes the theology and the animism around our worship of animals. As a result of that, ownership starts ean something, and property rights start to mean something. And then civilization structures to be able to deal with class systems start to emerge. That's one way of thinking about it. We have

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