Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readMar 12, 2021

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Nope again! Proto-agricultural enclaves such as Catal Huyuk existed for thousands of years with no leaders and a completely egalitarian social system. It eventually eroded, but mobility is not the key to egalitarianism, nor are very small numers such as the H-G bands that only had 20-50 members. Catal Huyuk was a community of up to 10,000.

"This culture was not a lone outlier in an otherwise warlike and stratified world. Rather, it was a snapshot of what the world had been like until that time, when increasing population density as well as greater personal property that came with a larger reliance on agriculture combined with natural disasters and incursions from more warlike Proto-Indo-European tribes changed the social dynamics forever."

I've been researching this and writing about it for over two years now. I've essentially done a self-directed Master's degree on it, and it's one of my areas of expertise. You can keep floating theories, but I have the research and the stories already written to keep shooting them down.

What you are passing along is the propoganda of patriarchy trying to justify itself. I don't blame you for believing it. It's what we've all mostly been told, but it's not accurate or true by any demonstrable metric.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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