The Maya and the Romans

The maya had an enlightenment of their own long before the european enlightenment. They were intensive agriculturists who farmed on poor tropical soils, but managed to maintain soil fertility for a remarkably long time through successful land management. We moderns need to find ways to flatten the boom bust cycle that has plagued all populations across time. Our culture is unravelling as well. We need a new study state, an evolutionarily stable strategy. And then we talk about obstacles. The obstacles that we talk about to the fourth frontier come from both the left and the right. But many moderns seem to have forgotten that we need the tension, we need people on both sides of

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