you sound a little bitter

Well, there ARE alternatives to this set up. In Ancient Athens around our 23rd or 24th birthday we conceptualized participatory democracy, admittedly probably while high.

In fact, around this

“Axial Age”

we brainstormed most of the good ideas mankind would fumble with for the rest of recorded history. We were on some good shit back then. Bright eyed and fresh out of the Bronze Age, with large food surpluses and even

larger hearts

mankind in the last millennia before Christ-

thank you

We came up with some interesting stuff:

the civil glue of Confucianism with its retirement package of Taoism, Buddhist nirvana and Jainism’s karmic circle-jerks;

Zoroastrianism which might be the oldest and Judaism which pretends it didn’t come from Zoroastrianism; Homeric poetry as well as that Plato guy and his honest inquiry which spawned higher learning.

that’s a whole lot of words

That’s a whole lot of wisdom.

Within the ideas of that age we began a human conversation that has continued to this day. If, that is, we didn’t constantly get sidetracked by damned empire, violently shattering our Grecian urns only to glue them back together to

carry water for elites