How can we build an equitable society that lasts longer than the New Deal did?

[Jackpine Radical]

5. I don't much buy into the sociobiology of your first paragraph.

A wide variety of human societies have existed, many of which lacked that sort of hierarchical, patriarchal structure. Sociobiologists make a lot of assumptions about the inflexibility of humans and assume that their own culture either is or ought to be universal.

In some circumstances, humans form hierarchical groups, and in other circumstances they don't. I tend to think of patriarchy as a sort of social cancer that got started in some agricultural societies, and now threatens to destroy us all. I think the more healthy social structure is the "partnership culture" of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa,
in the Indus valley, and Minos in the Mediterranean.

For every chimp example, there is a bonobo example, if ya really got to get down to that level of argument.

And I think we can get along just fine without permanent hierarchical structures.