Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "The Birth of Civilisation - Cult of the Skull (8800 BC to 6500 BC)" video.

  1.  @clownworldhereticmyron1018  This is a common layman thought/joke, but it's a rather unfair comparison to draw. We live in a world where we have tons of stuff. Material culture in early civilizations is important because they lived with greater restrictions, and the things they produced needed to be, by and large, more functional, one way or another. So while it's certainly possible that they could have produced dolls as toys and nothing more, it frankly makes more sense to assume that there is greater significance than that in instances where we discover such artifacts. Also, a thing can be a ritual object and a child's toy at the same time, I reckon. Even today, a well-loved toy might as well be considered a "ritual object", even if it doesn't involve incense and sacrifices
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  2.  @damo5701  In what world is communism completely disinterested in producing enough goods to fully satisfy the needs of its members? This is an ironic statement to make, considering that early societies like these very much resembled communes, certainly more so than modern capitalist enterprises. The video even made it clear that ideas of social stratification and ownership were clearly not central concepts in these early societies. This is a frankly ahistorical conclusion that speaks more to a modern prejudice than it does to an ancient reality
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  3.  @DeandreSteven  I believe you misunderstood what you replied to. The commentor wasn't saying that communism was the government type of ancient societies such as those featured in this vid, they were merely countering the point that communism is somehow disinterested in producing healthy excess for the good of its members. As they correctly stated, without workers producing in excess of what they themselves consume, it would be impossible to provide for other citizens who cannot perform the same level of work. Communism therefore requires workers to produce more than they can consume in order to feed the entire community
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  4.  @ionia2376  "Fuck you, I've got mine" 10,000 BC Edition
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  5.  @breadman5048  They already had easier access to food before though, that's the whole basis of this conundrum
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  6.  @breadman5048  Very true, very true. But the change seems to have caught on and spread, so it wasn't entirely accidental everywhere. For probably most humans, there must have been some socio-political desire to rearrange society in such a way
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