Topic: Agricultural Revolution

Raw Egg Nationalist analyzes Plato's Republic, noting that Socrates suggested a vegetarian diet for workers to keep them content and manageable. He characterizes the Agricultural Revolution of 10,000 years ago as the "First Great Reset," where a predatory elite forced hunter-gatherers into settled farming. This transition is described not as a leap in evolution, but as a method of social control and taxation.

Richard Dolan outlines the historical progression of the human species through three distinct stages. Stage one encompasses the hunter-gatherer era lasting hundreds of thousands of years, followed by stage two, the agricultural revolution, which introduced cities like Uruk and social hierarchies. Stage three emerged a few hundred years ago with the rise of science and industry, defining the modern world until the current transition.