Here is the "Tree" which the seeds of agriculture plant.  I
figured it migh be appropriate to the list.

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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 20:55:45 -0700
Subject: Pentalectical Materialism, addendum


Part 2 of Pentalectical Materialism

TREE OF DESTRUCTION: View this as a tree, from bottom to top.



                            END RESULT:
Empires,         (NEED MORE SPACE, SPREAD OUT AND)
imperialism,     (ENGULF THE WORLD, MORE STRIFE/WAR)
colonialism.     (ENGULF THE WORLD, MORE STRIFE/WAR)
  (                                                     ..)
   (                                             Manifest Destiny
    (...                                         God ordains it.
   Might is right,                               Holy Wars and
   take and push                                 Elitism racism
   out all others                                     )
       (                                          ...)
        (...                  EFFECT:         Priestly caste
      Need more room      (OVERPOPULATION)    supports military
      powerful army can   (LAND DEPLETION)    & pacifies others.
      war and take more   (NEED TO SPREAD)       )
          (               (FIND MORE LAND)      )
           (                                ...)
            (...                        Classes, vying
         Nation states                  against each
         warrior caste                  other for more.
               (......                   ...)
            Walls around            Unequal ownership.
            protected area            ...)
            with protectors.    Castes assigned to
                  (             specific chores.
                   (.................)
                   ( ...TREE ROOT...)
       Stationary Settlers farming a patch of land

                         CAUSE:
                     CLIMATE CHANGE


View this as a tree, not as separate categories, but as how one thing
grows into another at the same time AS all other parts of the tree are
growing. E.g., Walls around a protected area (i.e., with a given set of
protectors) necessitates a grouping of who is going to do which chores.
This simple division of labor with the fruits of ALL labor pooling back
into the whole group begins to change with certain groups getting a
bigger share than others. Warrior castes, which arise from those chosen
to be protectors, go hand in hand with unequal ownership, now of
privatized portions of land. Warriors are in a position to demand more
and claim patches of land. Next, the castes become static, they become
set AS CLASSES and they'd vie for favoritism from the strongest class,
i.e., the warriors. The warriors would elect a King. The priests would
declare him a God King or claim he ruled by Divine Decree since the
warriors are in a position to destroy these priests if they don't serve
them. This is how it starts and ends up every single time. By the time
this formerly small group ruins the land, they are strong enough, as a
nation now, to conquer and/or push out all other people. Nomads were
once the majority. Now they are almost extinct or absorbed. The New
World Order is one HUGE Empire with the classes still in place, slaves
and all. It's just HUGE now. The revolt against altar and throne is a
revolt against THIS THEE. This is what is behind the anti-Adamite
mythpoetry of those who regard this all as "The Assassins" who regard
"us" against it as Anti-Christs, THEIR Enemy.