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13 - Dualistic Religions
Christianity is under the umbrella of monotheist, polytheist, dualistic, and animist views. At first, they only have monotheist view but they are mystified when it comes to questions like where does evil come from? If God is a good god, why allow sufferings in this world? That's when they adopted the dualistic approach that evil is entirely a different and individual entity separated from god

the domestication of animals was a great evolution for human lives but it's also the time where animals live their most miserable lives.

Agricultural Revolution - turning point where sapiens cast off their intimate symbiosis with nature and sprinted towards greed and alienation.

(I'm actually enjoying listening to this one. There's a lot of things I don't know about especially about the domestication of animals) :(

...the body of homo sapiens had not evolved from such tasks, it was adapted for climbing apple trees and running after gazelles not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets. humans' spine, knees, neck and arteries paid the price.

the studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to agricultural brought about a plethora of ailments.

5 -- The Agricultural Revolution

the average farmer worked harder than the average forager and got the worse diet in return. the agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud.

I like that I chose to listen to the book's audio book rather than read it. It feels like I'm in a history/sociology class.