10.5a – The Real Dawn of Everything: why our early ancestors were egalitarian and socially liberal

Can we stop our civilization from collapsing into more and more inequality and less and less democracy? Are our only choices to be ruled by an owner class of infantile, out of touch zillionaire lunatics, or else an intellectual class of moralizing authoritarian psychopaths? In this 4 part series we do what the authors of Dawn of Everything failed to do: we learn how social change happens, so that we can grasp the opportunities and limits for social and economic change inherent in the conditions of the 21st century. And we do this by looking at how human social evolution tracks the common political compass meme template – one episode per compass quadrant! Human social evolution explained in 4 E-Z political compass memes… TO SUPPORT MY EXISTENCE (I do not monetize my channel, and depend on donations in order to have the time make these episodes!): PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY: (see bibliographies of episodes 6, 7, 7.1, 10.1) TRANSCRIPT: (coming soon) VIDEO VERSION (includes graphics, articles, visual gags, my punim, etc) RSS FEED tweeter: @worbsintowords ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE (bandcamp) (sportify) 0:00 Hello fellow kids / the world today 2:12 Do we really have to eat da poo poo? 4:00 What is the four quadrant political compass meme? 4:42 Human agency, material determinism and hope 6:06 Four phases of human social evolution 7:37 The 2016 US election voter compass chart 9:35 Innit a bit racialist (and inaccurate) to talk about stages of social evolution? 11:36 Quadrant 1: immediate return hunting and gathering 12:28 Economic equality, political equality and individual liberty as functions of equality of bargaining power 16:04 Gender equality 17:46 Political equality and social liberalism: gender roles 19:34 Permissive sexual norms, polyamory and jealousy 20:07 Religious liberty and agnosticism 20:37 Equality and freedom as the natural state of human beings 21:30 Next time 22:29 Gimme 23:22 Upcoming Q&As 24:12 Upcoming long awaited episodes, seeya! https://archive.org/download/10.5-quadrant-01/10.5%20-%20QUADRANT%2001.mp3 WHAT IS POLITICS? is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://worldwidescrotes.wordpress.com/