are not unprecedented

THEY KILL EVERY SOCIETY

them being free in a raging way is unprecedented

but it would be symptom

NOT UNPRECEDENTED, BUT A CONSTANT THREAT

DECAY DOES THAT

WE GREW TOO FAST

THEN ENCOUNTERED SOME PITFALLS

THEN GOT WEAKENED

okay, so that's something concrete

BLAME THE BLACK PLAGUE

"we grew too fast"

BUT EVEN MORE

WEALTH

so the issue is the scale of society?

NO

THE ISSUE IS FAST GROWTH

GRADUALISM WINS

RADICAL CHANGE IS DEATH

INDIVIDUALISM WAS ALWAYS THE THREAT

BUT WE GREW SO QUICKLY

WE COULD NOT COUNTER IT

ALSO

PEOPLE WERE NOT MERCILESS

REBELLIOUS SERFS NEEDED TO BE KILLED ONE AND ALL

NOT EXILED TO THE EAST

with all due respect, that doesn't sound like analysis

sounds like polemic

IT IS ANALYSIS

FAST GROWTH PRODUCES PROBLEMS

THIS IS WHY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN OPPOSED

GRADUALISM RECOGNIZES COMPLEXITY

FAST GROWTH DOES NOT

BUT

what's special about fast growth now, as opposed to in the past?

BENEFITS THE INDIVIDUAL

RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

I AM SPEAKING OF IN THE PAST

ACCELERATING OVER THE PAST 3000 YEARS OR SO

and what is the mechanism of growth that results in alienation anyway?

okay, so we grew too fast beyond hunter gatherer brains?