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Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
“hungry, born with hunger, born with the need to regenerate, not knowing whether he will survive at all, very ignorant of what will really support him. And he began observing people who ate roots and berries and very often got killed by them–poisoned. And he saw that the animals who didn’t eat all those things didn’t get poisoned. So he killed them and their flesh was very safe and gave him a whole lot of food in a great hurry. The most powerful men tended to group together and control that meat. And we find that tendency very powerfully organized in what we call the nobles-- when all the hunting and the animals belonged to the nobles. As late as 1815 in England a commoner caught killing a rabbit could be hung on the spot without a trial. Those animals belonged to the nobles and the king. So we have these most powerful men eating meat and the other people having to make do with what was left over: and eating what they could find, in great ignorance about what they should eat and what is good nourishment, and having no real knowledge of this. We have a few, then, who are powerful and eat well and can rule by the sword. Their proportion of the total number of people was so small that everybody assumed there was some mystical reason that god had chosen these people specially. And we have”
