Hebrew Bible - The Transition From Traditional Society to Complex Society

In the first book of samuel, for example, the various hebrew tribes are telling their leader sam that they want to have a king. And so Samuel has his little chat with god about the whole thing. What should i do? God says, tell em they don't want a king. Samuel says, they're insisting. They want a king and once you step that way, there's no going back. That's exactly what happens in nearly every complex society. In the episode of fear and loathing, i said that family loyalty and state institutions are naturally antagonistic. When european explorers started coming across cultures we got to see this playing out in different ways. We saw