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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
Speaking of laziness and apathy; I would like to thank you for taking the time ensure not only that your meaning is easy to discern, but for your general promotion of proper grammar.
Anyways, I said nothing of history repeating itself; only that all societys with a division of labor have been stratified. However, clearly, that could all change - now that we have a few individuals who are imaginative and anything but lazy.
I mean, the same trend would only play out all over the globe, on every inhabitated continent, in every single case known - even in the societies which sprung into being without contact from or knowledge of a single other stratified society - because people are lazy! That's why we've kept at it for millenia after millenia after millenia - laziness!
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i apologize for... well, myself, but when i read this post, i notice that the whole thing could very well be taken as sarcasm, and as this is a thread about a topic a lot of people feel is ridiculous, i feel i should mention before i reply to the stratification part that i don't even know if you're being serious.
moving on.
i don't think people as a species became stratified as a result of laziness. we've never had nor been able to conceive of the proper tools and technology to even begin building a unified paradigm. the laziness comes into play when we start thinking about how much money, time and energy are being spent on the creation of better television sets and advancements in the archaic gas-powered engine fields of technology. i call it lazy because we spend a ridiculous percentage of our lives distracting ourselves perfectly from the bigger picture.
as far as an inherent stratification, perhaps your are right. perhaps it's just natural that we divide ourselves from each other into smaller groups. but in the future, i can't say. much of our identity-shaping experiences come from the methods and philosophies we employ in the generation of income; from how we go about surviving. in a world where currency plays zero role in the acquisition of necessities, i just feel our brains would operate differently than they do now on so many levels (due to different types of conditioning) that trying to create a hypothesis on how it would pan out sociologically is simply beyond my scope.