[toffler, mcluhan, drucker, jaredD, deleuze&guattari]

hunterer-gatherer ->

horses -> range + speed -> spread of civill.

weapons -> concentration of wealth to those with weapons -

[mcluhan]text  - linearisation - [standardisation, specialisation, centralisation, concentration] -> cities -> empires -> [drucker] management+training -> modern world

[mcluhan]text  - linearisation -  symbols -> philosophy -> logic -> math  -> ? 

                                                                      |_> rhizome

[jared diamond] agriculture -> population growth  ->  ? - growth economies ?  -> concentration of wealth with those who control those who wield weapons via symbolic logic

[graeber] debt -> ?

[mcluhan] man/women - centre/margin -> cities -> greece -> roads -> rome -> church -> Enlightenment -> empires -> industrialisation ->

[mcluhan] if greek civillisation had heroes and city states, the romans had roads and legions. nothing screams 'linearization' than roads and soldiers marching in rank and file  holding spears. ( I guess Rome created a snowball made of conscripts from conquered states marching down the road to conquer the next one, whose defeated citizens became conscripts for the next iteration in this, but linearisation yay!)

see illustration by 9gag

mass-consumption of  knowledge encoded in symbols ensured the spread of only a common minimum [toffler]

bonus content :  How to make men do evil

"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal."

"The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them."

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

        "There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot be duplicated by                     a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do 

— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

1. the Pirate Loot Distribution Scheme

- make them wilfully agree to disproportionate return

2. the firing squad principle

- at least one blank allows the gang to believe i-didn't-do-it

3. abstractions . religious maps of the world. us vs them

- most effective way to dehumanise