Liberty & Logos - Episode 1 - 'How did WE get here?'

A brief history of everything that uses leviathan, ecocide and spiritual alienation as themes to describe the overall transformations of the earth and the lifeways of its human inhabitants.

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Contents:
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Overview: leviathan, ecocide, spiritual alienation
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Leviathan as state & slavery
Ratchet points: specialization, sedentism
Klaus Schmidt, Gobeke Tepli and shamans
Terror management theory
The beginnings of bureaucracy
Centre-periphery dynamics
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The centrality of soil
Human impacts on the earth
A quibble about Amory's stance on AGW
Autarchy as the answer to so many problems
Minimalism vs. maximalism
What does a return to natural relations look like?
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Spiritual alienation & the Book of Genesis
From nihilism to spiritual salvation