According to Eagle Feather
Çatalhöyük, for example, doesn’t sound like any kind of verdant paradise that would have naturally tended to overpopluation. Only a harsh environment was able to hold mankind in check as far as population was concerned. Most primitive tribes that were not based on the cult of the warrior were Socialistic and even Communistic. Such tribes usually existed in very harsh climates where resources were thin and where the main enemy was nature (or weather) itself.
Tribes that lived in areas of ‘easy living’ quickly reached population levels that made humans the enemy rather than natural forces. As a result these tribes were based on warrior cults. Warrior cults are what transformed into governments. Governments or kings are what gave birth to city-states, empires and what we call civilization.A human population not controlled by nature led to over-population about 6000 years ago. Over population led to the need for sewers and sewers are best brought into existence by ‘civilizations’. War, fears, greed, over population called into existence CIVILIZATION. Such mega-communities (or civilization) of mankind were little different than ant dens or large beehives. But man is not a hive creature. His brain is designed for harsh survival in a small troop or clan of fellow humans. Even 10 Billion Chimps living on earth would be less damaging to the earth than just 500 million humans. 6 Billion T-Rexs’ would be less damaging to earth than 6 billion humans.
No method of economy is going to bring sustained peace or health to mankind. Socialism worked well in small tribes. The modern cult of the warrior that is ‘capitalism’ certainly will not work either, since the first rule of true war is ignore all rules. Capitalism always leads to monopolies and control of government through bribes.
The failings of the US constitution were many, and what actually produced a sense of freedom in the USA was the wilderness it took by force from the Native tribes and Mexico. Why heck, even the Blacks found that they could live more or less free by just going West. Every U.S. citizen was free out west. And this sense of freedom was what percolated back east to keep it somewhat free. Once this wilderness was fenced off and all the important land grabbed up by the rich capitalists the sense of freedom in the USA began to vanish. It was then that big government could take control and that mega-corporations could take over the government .
But what was the Wild West? It was a semi-return to small settlements and the individualistic man. People in that environment even practiced a kind of voluntary socialism. When one man needed a barn, everyone would pitch in and help build it.
However, civilization is a virtual creature with a virtual mind. It lives for millennia, while its cells (humans) live for but moments. This creature has the mind of a starfish and the soul of a machine. It is actually a kind of virtual machine. Nature will NEVER survive it. No, law, custom, or rule will ever tame it for more than a few human generations. Earth’s biosphere is toast, and this means that your arguments are all about arranging deck chairs on this Titanic.