The most important and perhaps most obscured insight in human history was that there is nothing as valuable as manipulating the behavior of other people. This discovery led to power structures, governance, social planning and civilization.
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I don't think they are all created, but they emerge, in the sense that they are set of rules that become accepted, tacitly or not. I get the impression it is more emergent set of properties based on individuals reacting to stimuli.
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I doubt it. Look at the dramatic change in priority when Abraham's God demands precedence over his offspring. This marks the fundamental transition from a clan building species to a state building species.
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I am going to think about it
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The structures of society did for the most part not just emerge, but were deliberately designed, evaluated and adjusted. Civilization is a technology.
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