Are We Discovering Alien Civilizations on Mars?

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I have no idea if this is really oeon structure the society of of of the colonists on mars based on what we've done here on earth. Maybe elon's team of social engineers w will invent a new thing, or maybe the martians will figure something out in a century that you and i just can't even think of. Get back to my govern mars problem. I kind of ended my essay on that. You don't need to talk about strange races of lizard men. The actual scientific evidence is fascinating and often bewildering enough. And they also seem to follow a standard metrical system all the way across the continent. Mean, that's extraordinary.

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike — either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.

In this conversation, based on the book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, Shermer speaks with professor of comparative archaeology, David Wengrow, about his pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology that fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society.