Writers like Rousseau, Hobbes and Locke used stories about prehistory in their writing that weren’t really connected to much evidence at all. So even if there isn’t data to confirm or deny what you are writing, it can still be informative and insightful.
Good luck from me! I am not sure I am going to like 100% of your book, but the fact is that you have quite independent non-mainstream thought, which I admire a lot. It is absolutely true that the modern science, academia, press, not to mention media - are all infected by Marxism, and recognizing this and trying to counter it at its very heart - the vision of mankind - is a BIG DEAL to me. You may create something wonderful, or not, but in either case you must do it, because this is what free thinking is about.
I remember when evening a few months ago, when 3000 km from you, a few friends of mine (some of them entrepreneurs, some of them professional archeologist and historians) spent a few hours discussing your ideas about the madness as a driver of the civilization. So you never know where your ideas go, bounce and ultimately seed something new.
Good Luck Tove, it'll be great, lets hope civilization survives until then :D
Hopefully of interest to you: a very interesting read on emergence of group selection in proto-humans, and co-evolution of language cooperation - the guy is really onto something.
I wonder if you would account somehow for the central role of gods in the ancient city-states. Why are gods?
Currently re-reading Wrangham’s Goodness paradox. Starts well but the chapter on morality is very confused. For instance, shame and guilt are very different. Shame (or embarrassment, as Wrangham says) is a biological affect but guilt requires self-consciousness. But Wrangham has shame as particularly human emotion.
Writers like Rousseau, Hobbes and Locke used stories about prehistory in their writing that weren’t really connected to much evidence at all. So even if there isn’t data to confirm or deny what you are writing, it can still be informative and insightful.
Good luck from me! I am not sure I am going to like 100% of your book, but the fact is that you have quite independent non-mainstream thought, which I admire a lot. It is absolutely true that the modern science, academia, press, not to mention media - are all infected by Marxism, and recognizing this and trying to counter it at its very heart - the vision of mankind - is a BIG DEAL to me. You may create something wonderful, or not, but in either case you must do it, because this is what free thinking is about.
I remember when evening a few months ago, when 3000 km from you, a few friends of mine (some of them entrepreneurs, some of them professional archeologist and historians) spent a few hours discussing your ideas about the madness as a driver of the civilization. So you never know where your ideas go, bounce and ultimately seed something new.
I appreciate that you say that I MUST do it. It makes me feel a bit less crazy.
Being crazy is a compliment on the Balkans.
Good Luck Tove, it'll be great, lets hope civilization survives until then :D
Hopefully of interest to you: a very interesting read on emergence of group selection in proto-humans, and co-evolution of language cooperation - the guy is really onto something.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.735375/full
I wonder if you would account somehow for the central role of gods in the ancient city-states. Why are gods?
Currently re-reading Wrangham’s Goodness paradox. Starts well but the chapter on morality is very confused. For instance, shame and guilt are very different. Shame (or embarrassment, as Wrangham says) is a biological affect but guilt requires self-consciousness. But Wrangham has shame as particularly human emotion.
That will be an interesting book!
Go and write! And keep us posted.
I will buy your book!
Please serialize it here. I would be sad to go without your writing for an extended period of time.
I'm looking forward to your book! Good luck!
Emmanuel Todd's works on family systems would probably help.