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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Replying to @Plinz
Isn't it structures that manipulate people more than people ?
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Replying to @PXke_
A structure is a stable parameterizable functional property of a substrate. Social structures are deliberately created or evolved functions for enabling and constraining social interaction.
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Replying to @Plinz
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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Replying to @PXke_
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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Or take the switch from East German socialism to West German capitalism as an example. That was not emergent, but the installation of a new social clockwork.
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