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55 minutes agoLock-and-key grain agriculture exists precisely TO suppress people. Grain agriculture spread not because bread is a miracle and we all love it and need so much of it, but rather because grains have a predictable harvest and consistent size and weight that makes them useful for taxing purposes for states – and it makes populations grow because it requires you to be sedentary… which also useful for states in many situations. States and hierarchies are the problem.

It’s naive to say “Israel gets to do whatever they want.” (See? I can quote things the person I’m replying to didn’t say to make a strawman, too).