At least half of men don’t wash their hands before leaving a public restroom. Literally everything is covered in dick stuff. Source: 30+ years of using public restrooms as a male.

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    The data is skewed. All of the functioning systems we use reward concentrations of power.

    Thereby, systems of rule must distribute power and contest the concentration of power. It literally takes a village to save us from ourselves.

    David Graeber and David Wengrow introduced me to historical examples of non-hierarchical societies in The Dawn of Everything.

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      The fact that power results in antisocial behavior has been understood for millenia.

      Lots of societies have had cultural infrastructure of equality that attempts to mitigate this weakness in our biology and prevent harmful levels of power accumulation. The basque village layouts that Davids Graeber & Wengrove talk about, or the practise of ‘insulting the meat’ of successful hunters.