provocative certainly, the Patriarchal Counter Revolution seems to be a bit conflating. I would expect that shifts in domains and dominance shift also in the historical flow of time and space. The place of origin of currency by tokens based on fixed value was a major democratizing event. The earliest preserved use of coins was was by Lydia in the Mediterranean terminus of the Silk Road. The dominant basis in the region for exchange was an oligarchic gift/tribute economy. The democratization of the Athenean/Attic economy in particular by way of Solon's counsel allowed the agora to develop as an open space/a'la commons. There is some interesting material on network based nations and their ports of call. The democratization of the currency and economy allowed small scale merchants to sustain as well. This also includes the establishment of brothels, which has an ambiguous role in reducing the oligarchy. Understand here that the anthropology of someone like David Graeber is mostly focused upon the origins of the recording of debts is in also in the sphere of MMT to the extent that he focuses upon the recording of debts as in by units and monetary equivalents. It is the in payment of taxation that sovereign currency can act. The wealth of Croesus was possible only through the city state of Lydia being able and willing to protect and regulate economic life there in the then current hub of the western parts of Eurasia. Cyrus the Great and the legacy of the Persian Empire was that they were a pluralistic society in most ways. The participation of the Navy of Samos, Phoenicians, and others in the retributive invasion of Attic Greece by Darius, as retold by Herodotus, tells me that the targeted Greeks were the oligarchical gift economy loyalists who considered merchants to be thieves. The Ionian revolt which led to the Persian attack upon Attic/Mycenaean Greece resulted from their supplying weapons and support to various city states in Anatolia/Asia Minor in resistance to the Persian Empire. The details of the culture is open to all sort of speculations as a Lysistrata model of change as much as a culture organized on a hunting and gathering economy might substantiate. It would seem that in a tribal perspective that each and every participant of the community has a place in the process. That Hera/Juno declares a domain as does Dionysus and Janus seems productive, though less assertive. thanks for the link, Tadit