I think agriculture and the onset of ownership created a need for either/or thinking. Either you owned the land, or someone else did. Before that, no one owned nature.
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Not sure if this argument is entirely as correct as it is compelling.
As for simple societies (correct dichotomy, IMO, is simple vs. complex, not ancient vs. modern - complexity is unevenly distributed across history and even today), a lot of them seem pre-discriminatory.
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Viruses (seem to) exhibit this level of agency, but this is inherent to their effect on the organism, and relies on hijacking the right bodily functions.
By what mechanism would grains induce humans to form monarchist societies?
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I'm not opposed to saying grains have their own form of intelligence or decision-making process, but it seems a bit preposterous to say it is keyed to other organisms in the same way as that of a virus.
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I'm not saying it's preposterous. I'm saying the evidence doesn't match the strength of the claim, based on what I know personally.
Hence why I was curious if you had something else to point to, but it seems we have a similar base of core beliefs, so it's something else.
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Yeah, cultural parallelism is super eerie.
My wild guess is this is a fabric of reality-level question, in some way that may well hash into these questions, but is yet more involved.
Of course, that's its own flavor of speculation. Current answers seem overly reductive, though.