His first step was to ditch the word civilisation, a term he argues is really propaganda by rulers. “When you look at the near east, China, Mesoamerica or the Andes, where the first kingdoms and empires arose, you don’t see civilised conduct, you see war, patriarchy and human sacrifice,” he says. This was a form of evolutionary backsliding from the egalitarian and mobile hunter-gatherer societies which shared tools and culture widely and survived for hundreds of thousands of years. “Instead, we started to resemble the hierarchies of chimpanzees and the harems of gorillas.”
Instead Kemp uses the term Goliaths to describe kingdoms and empires, meaning a society built on domination, such as the Roman empire: state over citizen, rich over poor, master over slave and men over women. He says that, like the biblical warrior slain by David’s slingshot, Goliaths began in the bronze age, were steeped in violence and often surprisingly fragile.
And just to add to this:
This all is without climate change. Ass climate change to the mix, which is as it currently stands, pretty much unstoppable, things will go to shit a whole lot faster.
As soon as crops start failing and we run out of fresh water, expect fascist types to spring up like weed
I for one believe that humanity is fucked and won’t make it past the next 59 years. Is that sad and sober? It sure fucking Is, but I don’t see a way around it. We should be all listening to scientists and working our asses off together to stop climate change but here we are with trump and co listening to conspiracy theories to rile up his base to push for WWIII instead.