[MD] The MOQ, Pathogens, and Individualism

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Khaled]
Jarred Diamonds had a book called, 'Guns germs and steel" from which national
Geographic did a 2 hour video. One of the premises has to do with why some
civilizations prosper and others don't.

[Arlo]
Yeah, I've read it. It's a good book. If I recall (been a while) he talks too
about the co-location of tamable beasts of burden. I think it too grounds
nicely into the MOQ idea of foundational determinance of the levels.

We take for granted that "society" emerged  only as the intellectual or
habitual desires of man, and forget that a whole host of biological patterns
from germs and oxen (and inorganic patterns such as steel) not only shaped the
emergent "society" but also the subsequent emergence of "intellect" from
society.