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The Stability of a Social Order in Central Asia
In the ass-end of Central Asia where what had been fertile fields become fucking deserts, and you still have though these well-established agricultural communities that leave a demographic footprint. How is it socially related? By people gaining into tribes and then fighting it out until an empire is formed, it falls apart, the parts fight each other. And amongst these tribes, one of the most marginal established this written tradition around the idea of a transcendental god they can be in constant communion with through cooperation with their neighbors as one organ. So we don't have to sweat it. I'm shoveling shit in this life. Maybe I'll be riding a horse in the next life. And then when it