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                ,_   .  ._. _.  .        _  ,   .
            , _-\','|~\~~ ~~ ~~/       ;-'-'  ~-',    ,;_;_,    ~~-
   /~~-\_/-'~'--' \~~| \,/' _-|       /  /  |_/~-/-/~~      ~~--~~~~'---_
   /              ,/'-/~ '\./   '  , '|,'|~   '                ._/-, /~~
   ~/-'~\_,       '-,| '|. '       ,\ /'~  10,000 yrs ago the  /_  /~
 .-~      '|        '',\~|\        _\~     ,_ .  ice age ended, /|
           '\        /'~           |_/~\\,-,~' \ less rain fell, |
            |       /  .           _-~'\_ _~|agriculture arose.) /
             \   __-\            ./The Nile|\  \_           /  ~
   .,         '\ |,  ~-_       . | produced \\_' ~|  /~\  \~ ,
                ~-_'    ;        \  pharaohs '-,   \,'  /\/  |
                  '\_,~'\_        \_ _, 5000  /'    '   |, /|'
                    /     \_        ~ | years/          \  ~'; -,_.
                    |       ~\         | ago, (& the best'-_, ,; ~ ~\
                     \,      /         \    / /| sculpture   ,-, ,   -,
                      |    ,/           |  |' |/  ever...) ,-   ~ \   '.
                     ,|   ,/            \ ,/               \       |
                     /    |              ~                  -~~-, /   _
                     |  ,-'   while human culture shifted from   ~    /
                     / ,'        reasonable equality to         ~
                     ',|  ~     *large-scale technology*
                       ~'   requiring new ways of thinking, and
                           new strategies for social _mindcontrol_:
   1) Meet resistance with fast-escalating violence.
   2) Impose a social mythology that resistance is wrong.
Diverse tribes had to be integrated.  Land belonged to the ruling family.
Myths of inequality had to be introduced.  Rulers' new inaccessibility
enabled irresponsibility.  The citizenry evolved self-consciousness via
self-control: deference to the absent ruler.

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                 An Ascii-Art History of Humanity
                  by Jorn Barger         v 1.01
                   [email protected]        3 May 1997