All the same, I’m glad our forebears went through millennia of agrarianism and state-formation as I can now benefit from the end stage of late modernity. It rocks, if only some of the time. If I had to live in a hunter-gatherer society, even as a kid/teen, I’d be dead if I had even been born. SO would many hundreds of millions of other people in the past 5000 or so years.

There’s a price for everything in this life.

That and what a titanic bore human history would have been. And of course at the end we’d be like one of those stalled neolithic societies the Enterprise was forever encountering in Star Trek.

Oh well. Scott is making major contributions. I don’t know if he has been a key driver, but the dark sides of the agricultural revolution have certainly become mainstream the last 15 years or so.