Still Starving After All These Years: The Hidden Origins of War, Oppression and Inequality

Still Starving After All These Years: The Hidden Origins of War, Oppression and Inequality

by Jeri Studebaker
Still Starving After All These Years: The Hidden Origins of War, Oppression and Inequality

Still Starving After All These Years: The Hidden Origins of War, Oppression and Inequality

by Jeri Studebaker

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Overview

Do you want an end to war and inequality? Civilizations the world over have produced spectacular innovations - monumental architecture, complex mathematics, magnificent art, and the invention of writing, to name a few. Civilizations have also produced several unsavory "innovations", which to the modern mind seem an inevitable part of living in civilized society. Large-scale architecture was invented to store hoarded food and other goods, produced by the enslaved masses but enjoyed by the powerful elite. Writing was invented to keep track of hoarded commodities. Institutionalized warfare was invented to steal slaves, who could produce more for the monumental storage containers. A striking parallel with today's governments' violent obsessions over endless growth. This prevailing mindset can and must be undone or else we risk the annihilation of humanity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789044881
Publisher: Iff Books
Publication date: 02/01/2021
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jeri Studebaker is the author of Switching to Goddess: Humanity’s Ticket to the Future. She has advanced degrees in anthropology, archaeology and education. She lives near Portland, Maine, in the U.S.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Introduction 2

Chapter 1 "Houston, We Have a Problem" 9

Chapter 2 These People Aren't Pretty 19

Chapter 3 I'm not Happy, Why Are They? 35

Chapter 4 Not Born to Be Bad 52

Chapter 5 Some of Us Act Like Starving People 59

Chapter 6 Our Ancestors Starved 71

Chapter 7 Before 4000 BCE, No One Was Bad 80

Chapter 8 The Birth of Starvation Culture 87

Chapter 9 Starvation Culture Grows Up 98

Chapter 10 Crazy Town: The First "Civilizations" 106

Chapter 11 The First Institutionalized Warfare 122

Chapter 12 Starvation Culture Travels the Globe 127

Chapter 13 How Pinker and Diamond Screwed Up 137

Chapter 14 Still Starving after all these Years 147

Chapter 15 The Fix: Erasing Starvation Culture 157

Chapter 16 The Fix: Replacing Starvation Culture 168

Appendices 174

References 181

Sources on the Ik, Inuit, Semai, !Kung and Mbuti 199

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