COMPADRAZGO: Sharing Emotion and Economy
COMPADRAZGO:
The Redestribution of passion and economy
As fascinating as it was to discover the wonders of the pre-Columbian Valdivia Culture of present day Ecuador and northern Peru, some 3500 years BC, with a hierarchical but astonishingly tolerable distribution of surplus crops and game from the top to the bottom, a pattern of reciprocity often characteristic for a rising civilization in America as well as in Asia, sooner or later degenerating into residual consumption and greed at the top, thus implementing the tools for a collapse typical of Empires and Dominant international allies, as hypnotic it is to see that we are swiftly on our way to repeat the devastating mechanisms of accumulation and exploitation proceeding the inevitable avalanche.
The evolutionists ask that the Redistributive Economy is a phase in the development of economy, more or less bound to end up in a Capitalistic reproductive system, being so far the most advanced system of exchanging or embezzlement modes of production.
Functionalist theory appears intellectually meagre due to the mechanistic approach and may as well be expressed in terms of fashionable creationism in it s blind belief in the rationalism of the order or the chaos of things and too defeatist for creative thinking and planning.
Looking back at the megacities of the Mayan Copán and the Olmec Toltec Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico Diocese) we see the perversion of a redistributive system with all surplus accumulated at the top and with exhausted satellites. Without the constant influx of staple food and goods to affirm the already ample armies, the Centre will make a last paradoxical effort to force the submissive societies to willingly incarcerate suicide by exporting the their own necessities for life. Once the armies start to go without, rebellion is born, allies are created and the unresisting satellite societies march versus the Centre. The rest we know.
The irratic rise and fall of the Nazcas, the Mochicas, the Chimur, the Zapotec, the Inca and the Uru-Aymara all cheer the same pattern. The rise of a sophisticated centre affluent because of an initially even distribution to all citizens no matter the position on the group ladder reciprocating with loyalty, until the top develop greed and reduce the redistribution until the devastating conflict develop.
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