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Samo Burja: Why civilizations fail; lost technologies, failure to teach and social technologies.

The Vance Crowe Podcast

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Social Technology

Celibacy is a very powerful social technology, and it's been used very productively. If we don't have this group of people that gave up the ability to propagate genetically and now are propagating by other means, then our civilizational knowledge may not be passed down. And i would say that it's not just the catholics that didn't let their priests marry. This goes on in norse cultures, where they have seers. You have a buddhist cultures, which have their own group ofPeople that separate out,. chinese culture, which has eunuchs.

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