Comments on: Scale of social structures

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:33:47 +0000

Matthew,
Don’t take it personally. A simple peruse of the rise and decline of come and gone societies shows the synopsis above is true. The family groups or individuals you mentioned, was not the point of the article, the intent went well beyond the small group, but how societies evolve, devolve and a simplistic rationale as to why (I say simplistic as dictated by the length of the essay).

By: El Cheapo

El Cheapo — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:47:24 +0000

“One year’s alumni have then added $5.5 billion to the economy and opened up 11 new fields of scholastic inquiry, only counting the small percentage of people who completely succeeded at their projects. A much greater proportion of students will have attained partial success sufficient to make significant but less dramatic contributions.” http://www.projectpolymath.org/renaissance

For some reason the US education system is generating trillions in new debt and defaults subtracting wealth from the economy.

Courthouse News Service-7 hours ago
BOSTON (CN) – The ACLU sued the U.S. Department of Education this week for information about the racial impacts of its student loan …

It must be classified.

By: Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Tiberius Brastaviceanu — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 07:49:02 +0000

But I think this blog post here misses the point of my essay, which is my definition of value, within the context of redistribution of resources. Use the link in my previous post and search the sections on value.

By: Tiberius Brastaviceanu

Tiberius Brastaviceanu — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 07:36:13 +0000

Here’s the link to my entire article, for an easy read, for friends on the p2pFoudation blog. Again, this is a work in progress, it will continue to evolve http://bit.ly/1RzoJ6B

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 06:59:52 +0000

You are close to Terje Bongard, but don’t understand the whole picture yet, as his book “The biological Human Being – individuals and societies in light of evolution” is not yet translated into English. But Bongard is working on it. Read first chapter here: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/Bongard-The_biological_human_-_chapter_1_translated-Language-corrected-1.pdf

By: john

john — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 02:26:04 +0000

Excellent article. The urge to dominate I believe is innate. Only a few actually want to dominate. To have some semblance of control, yes, but not to actually beat all others into servitude. A big difference is the difference between the psychosocial attitudes of village life and that of city life. Controlling our immediate surroundings, dwellings, family life, education, etc, is much different in the desire to control that for others. Especially when it represents totaltitarinistic or dictatorship philosophies: suppressors and the suppressed, the oppressors and the oppressed. A very good read, thank you for it.

By: Matthew Slater

Matthew Slater — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:01:39 +0000

Tieberius I take great offense at the unreferenced accusation that I, your reader, have a belligerent nature or an urge to dominate or be dominated. You hardly even know me. Furthermore the assertion in no way supports your larger hypothesis, nor is likely to win supporters.
The wider point about scaling and systems evolving is valid, of course. Would be nice to see Dunbar’s number brought in, because it would seem for most of our evolution, we lived in extended family groups. Thus it could be that that level of organisation is the most effective and meaningful and we would do well to empower them, as opposed to allowing political power always to float to the top of the pyramid.