A uniquely stand-alone episode of the Fight Like An Animal 2050 fictional series usually reserved for Patreon, here we describe a future in which insights from anthropology and biology on the ecological determinants of social structure are used by revolutionaries to create a society capable of survival. Combining the rapidly developing possibilities of synthetic biology with the long-standing anthropological paradigm of egalitarian hunter-gatherers, our story envisions a world in which technology is used as a means of creating a surplus for everyone, in an evenly distributed fashion, negating the ability to concentrate resources on which human dominance hierarchies depend. We examine the subsistence strategies of societies in Papua New Guinea and highland Southeast Asia to validate the claim that, rather than the wild or domesticated status of food resources, what is salient in determining social form are their spatial distribution, abundance, and predictability. We relate these resource characteristics to the fluidity of social formations which seems to be decisive in enabling egalitarianism among foragers and cultivators alike. Never eager to neglect a cross-species framework, we also examine the extremely fluid social formations of transient ravens, the sacred animals of this podcast.
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Vivimancer pt. 2: Brain Waves
Sub-Self, Meet Meta-Self: Notes on The Emerging World Mind
Jesus of Nazareth and the Biology of Defeat
The Biological Singularity Is Near pt. 1
Social Complexity after the Machines: Interview with Dr. Shane Simonsen
Metanoia: How Worldviews Change
Vivimancer pt. 1: The Water Carrier (excerpt)
Seeds of the World Tree: Programs of Revolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Politics
Social Cohesion vs. the Internet vs. the Establishment vs. the Earth
#66: A Saboteur's Moon Sheds No Light (excerpt)
The Ashes of the World Tree: On Grieving and Fighting
Metamorphosis pt. 3.3: Your Body Is a Map of the Sky
Metamorphosis pt. 3.2: Integration across Landscapes and Brain Regions
Metamorphosis pt. 3.1: The Rupture in the Fabric of Reality Model of Human Cognition
Metamorphosis pt. 2: The Cognitive Evolutionary Avant-Garde
Metamorphosis pt. 1: The Age of Mutual Incomprehension
The Incompetent Authoritarianism of Vladimir Lenin
Revolutionary Biology pt. 2: The Development and Evolution of Sasquatch
Revolutionary Biology pt. 1: Nature vs. Nurture vs. Synthesis
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