noddy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:07 am
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:29 am
I'll say something really nice about the globe...it's kinda awesome that 5 billion of us are connected through trade. This is starting to get close to ant colony impressive.
yeh, and also hilights the huge advantage the progressive globalists have - its harder to get the grumpy conservatives in each nation to give a lavender about each other.
hence that version of the truth has more focused participants, we are yet to see the global nationalists form coalitions of "ill ignore you if you ignore me" that create big super structures.
Really been thinking lately why there isn't a closer look/reassessment over Ancient Egypt-- if one wants to see the outcome of what a "worldwide" economics-first order looks like.
Who was the Pharaoh but the guy who owned the water rights over the Nile? Everything else flows [pun intended] from there. Old/Middle Kingdom "political" control is almost always overstated but the guy in charge held a very tight grip through the economic sphere. And the religious aspect, which really takes off closer to "New" Kingdom times is, I think, misread or read back into earlier sources where it isn't quite the same thing.
That old economic Egypt was a "world" economy which was totaling, with very rigid class differentiation but deeply egalitarian within the classes. Everyone had a place as long as it was economically beneficial to the pharaoh-system.