One other thing to point out is that agriculture allowed for large mobile armies.

For hunter gatherers it wasn’t easy to stockpile enough long term storage portable food to take to war, nor could you predict periods of bounty (which is why so many ancient cultures had prohibitions to making war during winter that almost no one broke) to plan long term campaigns. This style of sustenance also kept nomadic band population low as following the herds and the reduction of ease of hunting and complications in moving gave significant advantage to smaller social units.

We see a radical increase in social group size with the advent of agriculture, eventually leading to more permanent town and eventually city living instead of nomadic bands as you generally needed to be in one place to keep others from taking your crops and tending them year round.

I fully understand that there are a lot of luxuries and even just basic life improvements that wouldn’t be available to us if we had kept as small hunter gatherer bands, and maybe a lot of people alive now couldn’t survive or thrive in that kind of environment, it would be a very, very different world than what we know today but one thing I do know is that of we had never discovered agriculture we would never have eventually become a species that could kill off 95% of the life on the planet with the press of a button.

No I’m serious, and I understand you mean well but I can’t have this discussion meaningfully with you without writing 8 paragraphs of context.

There’s a lot of what Pratchett called ‘lies to children’ when it comes to non-university anthropology, things we learned in school that were kind of outdated already and gross oversimplifications.

We were told that agriculture allowed the free time to specialize and was the beginning of culture but the truth is that all that hunter-gatherer man needed to hunt to feed himself and 3 other people was about 6 hours of actual work a week. And specialization already existed with stone knapping and pottery.

There’s a lot more to it but I don’t really have the patience to keep writing this.

It goes back to when good agricultural land discovered to be so ridiculously effective at feeding people.

Not the beginning of wealth, but certainly one of the oldest still used store of wealth.

So much has been fucked up by discovering agriculture, it was also the beginning of institutional slavery.

Yeah American TV is definitely lowest common denominator. It’s popular because it caters to the same kind of people that would like ‘ow my nuts’ from idiocracy, and those kinds are endless in number.

Again, he’s not a good host for comedy, delivery, or pacing, but his stupid face and bumbling nature is beloved by many.

Like a children’s birthday clown without makeup.

He’s really bad as a host

You say that but his stupid shocked face literally kept the show alive long LONG after it should have passed away peacefully.

I mean its almost like his semi incompetence is a cultivated branding trait now.