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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Evolution of Power

In the past, power was distributed across people in horizontal hierarchies. 12 to 15 thousand years ago, we moved out of small nomadic groups into interlocking tribes and settlements,. And then we started to store grains and agriculture. When we shifted to this level of organization, a hierarchies, an power move from collaborative and horizontal to vertical. A really radical shift. The emergence of religion dictates who is powerful and who is not. You see polygamy, where men start to have multiple wives. People really start to feel in these more vertical hierarchies, like, i can own these people, or, these are my endentured servants. Power is ruthless. An isjus go get

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