Quote from: tvbcof on Today at 06:39:52 AM

Quote from: Cnut237 on December 28, 2021, 11:20:38 AM

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Were they now. Fascinating! Can you spare more of your deep knowledge and understandings of reality?

You're very combative, aren't you? Do you ever pause to reflect on anything, or is it all fire and fury?

Quote from: tvbcof on Today at 06:39:52 AM

Note to interested people: 'nomadic' is not equal to 'hunter-gatherer'.

A nomadic people may tend livestock, but they're not going to have fields, are they? The distinction I am making, as you are well aware, is between agrarian and non-agrarian societies.

Quote from: tvbcof on Today at 06:39:52 AM

Neither term implies anything about diet either

If you read back, you'll see a post discussing a nomadic 'carnivorous' people terrorising and subjugating a settled people. My response was simply to mention that a nomadic people, without agriculture, are not likely to progress technologically to the same level as an agrarian people. This should not be controversial. Indeed, based on the quote below, you seem to agree.

Quote from: tvbcof on Today at 06:39:52 AM

'hunter-gatherer' economies are not conducive to the formation of organized societies of any scale, and certainly not ones which can conquer a large percentage of the earth's surface and arrange taxation from it.

If all societies were hunter-gatherer, then no. If some are and some aren't, then hunter-gatherers can certainly use trade and conquest to enrich and expand their society. They aren't going to develop technologically to the same level as an agrarian society.

I do wonder whether your response here is coloured somewhat by our discussions in other threads, on the subject of vaccines.