Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

On 3/25/2024 10:56 PM, rbowman wrote:

Agriculture was the downfall of the human race.

It led to the concept of ownership. Farmers fought pastoral nomads for thousands of years because farmers claimed they "owned" the land with grass on it, and nomads didn't understand that logic one bit, and had to feed their livestock with the grass on that land.
Farmers (i.e. settlers) won.
Only once, in history, pastoral nomads won decisively for any length of time. The Mongols. And that was thanks to new thoughts and designs created by Chengiz Khan. He had created moving cities. People lived their lives in those "cities" and gave birth there and grew up there and died in them, all while moving together with the rest on their horses and with their livestock.
Ownership has reached crazy levels now. But it will get crazier. You have to pay for space, for water, for having to defecate and urinate, and for even being in proximity of others. Pretty soon you'll pay for air too, cause owners will claim owning it someday. Someone will own the Moon some day, and some fuckhead will claim "I own the Jupiter", one day. And others would have to pay to be there or breathe there or defecate there.
Human is fucked. We need real AI machines to take over.
Pastoral nomads, when there were no settlers yet, and that's before farming began, didn't see a logic behind ownership. The livestock belonged to everybody. The weapons belonged to everybody. There was a simple hierarchy in them because somebody who managed better needed to manage the twice a year journeys north and south in search of grass for their livestock. And everybody worked and did what they could to help the whole thing. And by the shear nature of a design that could stay functional in a timeless manner, the size of the tribe could not get too large. Chengiz was the only exception, which as we saw, didn't last for long. Settlers even won the war with that strange system, but at great cost.
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