Pro-metheus and Epi-metheus signify two aspects of thinking. Planning and reflection/retrospection.
The trouble did not arise while man was herding and roaming. The problems arose while man was moving into sedentary lifestyle based on agriculture.
When, for instance, the bible tells us about Cain building a city, think on what a city represents. An administrative center for agricultural purposes. It is interesting to note that Abel was a shepherd, looking after his flock.
The two brothers therefor reflect the two life-styles: sedentary agricultural (Cain) and semi-nomadic (Abel) The first indeed killed the latter, his brother. The sequence is off though, as nomadic was first and agricultural came after.
Then in Jacob and Esau we see the same type of strife: the hunter vs shepherd.
The single most important issue here is value and time-preference. And administrative center also yields protection in exchange for payment: the tax. It also allows for specialization: the production of technical higher products. A city therefor needs resources, both water and land to be able to survive. This allows for trade on a lager scale and in a wider geographical area. Then plug into this equation seafaring and it is easy to see how the 4 types are at odds with one another. This concentration under leadership will also allow for specialized men within the protection racket: the soldier.
It is interesting to study the issues surrounding an agricultural society and this protection racket in several countries during the middle ages: like France, Germany, the Low Lands, England. The differences are quite stark, depending on the geography. For instance, in norther France, the soil is clay, heavy clay, while more southern, the soil is light. This heavy soil requires different tools made out of iron. And Iron was in short supply. Then the practices surrounding agriculture differ. So, vast tracts of lands lay dormant, and only a third of an estate was usually used to produce.
This causes the societal structure to differ from place to place, as a feudal lord could only live within his means lest he destroys his keep. It also influences the position of the people living on feudal lands. In Germany, many lords required men to be armed, for the simple reason, they could not maintain a larger group of soldiers. And in times of strife, certain people were paid in land, land-titles, tax-release (Allodial <= allodium <= allod <= all-od <= all land in German, antinym= klein-od = token /soevenir/regallo) and other privileges.
It also influences the legal position, which differed from place to place. In England it was rather stringent, also as a consequence of the strife between Saxon and Norman, whereas in the Low Countries, all what was forced to be paid was blood money: a gold coin in case of murder. For the rest: solve your own issues.
That said: of course there were the poor, the sick, the cripples, the morons. These were generally labeled: INGESEYTENEN. Those with money and means were called: UITGESEYTENEN. The basic word here is: to sit, seat. INGESEYTENEN were those people who were being SAT IN, like a saddle, or a seat. So, they were not property, but they were being sub-ordinate to something else, usually the government of a city or BURGH, or BOURG. Hence our word: burgher or bourgois. The state of being a BURGHER: bourgsoisie.
Interestingly, when a child is born in The Netherlands, a gift on paper is done: literally: aangifte = hand-over => this creates a juridical person called the NATURAL PERSON, the porter/carrier of privileges and obligations, and into a unilateral relationship with the receiver of the gift: what is called the " gemeente" or the common(wealth)-unity. It is trough devices like this, that the system exerts power in combination with the diminution and de-humanization of man.
Pro-metheus and Epi-metheus signify two aspects of thinking. Planning and reflection/retrospection.
The trouble did not arise while man was herding and roaming. The problems arose while man was moving into sedentary lifestyle based on agriculture.
When, for instance, the bible tells us about Cain building a city, think on what a city represents. An administrative center for agricultural purposes. It is interesting to note that Abel was a shepherd, looking after his flock.
The two brothers therefor reflect the two life-styles: sedentary agricultural (Cain) and semi-nomadic (Abel) The first indeed killed the latter, his brother. The sequence is off though, as nomadic was first and agricultural came after.
Then in Jacob and Esau we see the same type of strife: the hunter vs shepherd.
The single most important issue here is value and time-preference. And administrative center also yields protection in exchange for payment: the tax. It also allows for specialization: the production of technical higher products. A city therefor needs resources, both water and land to be able to survive. This allows for trade on a lager scale and in a wider geographical area. Then plug into this equation seafaring and it is easy to see how the 4 types are at odds with one another. This concentration under leadership will also allow for specialized men within the protection racket: the soldier.
It is interesting to study the issues surrounding an agricultural society and this protection racket in several countries during the middle ages: like France, Germany, the Low Lands, England. The differences are quite stark, depending on the geography. For instance, in norther France, the soil is clay, heavy clay, while more southern, the soil is light. This heavy soil requires different tools made out of iron. And Iron was in short supply. Then the practices surrounding agriculture differ. So, vast tracts of lands lay dormant, and only a third of an estate was usually used to produce.
This causes the societal structure to differ from place to place, as a feudal lord could only live within his means lest he destroys his keep. It also influences the position of the people living on feudal lands. In Germany, many lords required men to be armed, for the simple reason, they could not maintain a larger group of soldiers. And in times of strife, certain people were paid in land, land-titles, tax-release (Allodial <= allodium <= allod <= all-od <= all land in German, antinym= klein-od = token /soevenir/regallo) and other privileges.
It also influences the legal position, which differed from place to place. In England it was rather stringent, also as a consequence of the strife between Saxon and Norman, whereas in the Low Countries, all what was forced to be paid was blood money: a gold coin in case of murder. For the rest: solve your own issues.
That said: of course there were the poor, the sick, the cripples, the morons. These were generally labeled: INGESEYTENEN. Those with money and means were called: UITGESEYTENEN. The basic word here is: to sit, seat. INGESEYTENEN were those people who were being SAT IN, like a saddle, or a seat. So, they were not property, but they were being sub-ordinate to something else, usually the government of a city or BURGH, or BOURG. Hence our word: burgher or bourgois. The state of being a BURGHER: bourgsoisie.
Interestingly, when a child is born in The Netherlands, a gift on paper is done: literally: aangifte = hand-over => this creates a juridical person called the NATURAL PERSON, the porter/carrier of privileges and obligations, and into a unilateral relationship with the receiver of the gift: what is called the " gemeente" or the common(wealth)-unity. It is trough devices like this, that the system exerts power in combination with the diminution and de-humanization of man.