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My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

There's a story that people often believe to be true about how modern society came to be

and it's a story that has implications for where we may be heading.

The story goes like so.

Once upon a time humans lived in hunter-gatherer societies.

Thanks to their mode of production and small scale,

these communities were non-hierarchical and egalitarian,

like the hunter-gatherer societies that persisted into the 20th century until today.

Agriculture then changed everything, propelling the rise of property, hierarchy, and domination.

The emergence of cities inevitably facilitated the emergence of a centralized authoritarian and bureaucratic state.

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