**God is the story cultures tell to justify the hierarchy they already wanted.**
Kings, priests, and empires all claim divine approval because it stabilizes obedience. The theology comes after the throne.
#Hierarchy #ReligionAndEmpire #Anthropology #SocialOrder

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God is the story cultures tell to justify the hierarchy they already wanted.

God is the story cultures tell to justify the hierarchy they already wanted.Kings, priests, and empires all claim divine approval because it stabilizes obedience. The theology comes after the thron…

Protyus A Gendher

15-Apr-2026
Can #nakedMoleRats peacefully hand over power?
Salk Institute researchers discover that, contrary to dogma, naked mole rats are capable of peaceful queen succession, demonstrating unappreciated flexibility in their #socialOrder

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123968

#science #zoology #animals #behaviour #ethology

#Hume was not the only person to notice the vertiginous rise in #publicdebt and its potential to disrupt #socialorder …” aeon.co/essays/why-h... #capitalism

Why Hume is better at explaini...
Why Hume is better at explaining modern capitalism than Marx | Aeon Essays

In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions