Interesting list, but seems to have a triumphalist bias. I doubt that “50K years ago, nobody could imagine changing the world” is true, and I suspect that “hunter-gathering cultures have actually found locally-optimal ways of life, and were generally happier and healthier than most premodern post-agricultural people” was a much bigger factor than most of these.
Interesting list, but seems to have a triumphalist bias. I doubt that “50K years ago, nobody could imagine changing the world” is true, and I suspect that “hunter-gathering cultures have actually found locally-optimal ways of life, and were generally happier and healthier than most premodern post-agricultural people” was a much bigger factor than most of these.
For an in depth argument that could taken to support this point, I highly recommend Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman.