as usual, but I will refrain, so many things that could lead to useful documentation!!<br><br>for example,<br><br>* There is some interesting material on network based nations and<br>
their ports of call.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:15 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ideasinc@ee.net">ideasinc@ee.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
provocative certainly, the Patriarchal Counter Revolution seems to be a<br>
bit conflating. I would expect that shifts in domains and dominance shift<br>
also in the historical flow of time and space.<br>
<br>
The place of origin of currency by tokens based on fixed value was a major<br>
democratizing event. The earliest preserved use of coins was was by Lydia<br>
in the Mediterranean terminus of the Silk Road. The dominant basis in the<br>
region for exchange was an oligarchic gift/tribute economy. The<br>
democratization of the Athenean/Attic economy in particular by way of<br>
Solon's counsel allowed the agora to develop as an open space/a'la<br>
commons. There is some interesting material on network based nations and<br>
their ports of call. The democratization of the currency and economy<br>
allowed small scale merchants to sustain as well. This also includes the<br>
establishment of brothels, which has an ambiguous role in reducing the<br>
oligarchy.<br>
<br>
Understand here that the anthropology of someone like David Graeber is<br>
mostly focused upon the origins of the recording of debts is in also in<br>
the sphere of MMT to the extent that he focuses upon the recording of<br>
debts as in by units and monetary equivalents. It is the in payment of<br>
taxation that sovereign currency can act. The wealth of Croesus was<br>
possible only through the city state of Lydia being able and willing to<br>
protect and regulate economic life there in the then current hub of the<br>
western parts of Eurasia. Cyrus the Great and the legacy of the Persian<br>
Empire was that they were a pluralistic society in most ways.<br>
<br>
The participation of the Navy of Samos, Phoenicians, and others in the<br>
retributive invasion of Attic Greece by Darius, as retold by Herodotus,<br>
tells me that the targeted Greeks were the oligarchical gift economy<br>
loyalists who considered merchants to be thieves. The Ionian revolt which<br>
led to the Persian attack upon Attic/Mycenaean Greece resulted from their<br>
supplying weapons and support to various city states in Anatolia/Asia<br>
Minor in resistance to the Persian Empire.<br>
<br>
The details of the culture is open to all sort of speculations as a<br>
Lysistrata model of change as much as a culture organized on a hunting and<br>
gathering economy might substantiate. It would seem that in a tribal<br>
perspective that each and every participant of the community has a place<br>
in the process. That Hera/Juno declares a domain as does Dionysus and<br>
Janus seems productive, though less assertive.<br>
<br>
thanks for the link,<br>
<br>
Tadit<br>
<br>
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