> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 6 evergreens, 1 source</em></s> #### [[What enables large scale social order]] part of:: [[What maintains our social order]] [[Social order]] is a phenomena that springs up naturally out of [[social behavior]], but maintaining [[social order]] on a scale larger than a hundred or so people is much more difficult. ^[[[There is a limit to the size of a group ordered purely by personal communication]]] - from:: [[What is the link between evolution and social behavior]] - involves:: [[What is the origin of social hierarchy]] [[Yuval Noah Harari]] argues in his book [[Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari|Sapiens]] that our [[Social order is built off of a shared belief in an imagined reality]]. While the ability to exist in this imagined order has been there since our time as [[hunter-gatherers]], it only came to govern our daily lives after [[The Agricultural Revolution]]. ^[[[Hunter-gathers were capable of mass cooperation]], but we did not make this cooperation a part over our every day survival, preferring to stay in autonomous groups: [[There is a limit to the size of a group ordered purely by personal communication]]] Two solutions are proposed by Harari, [[mythology]] and [[cooperation]]. > [!masonry] > > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^297681731]] > > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^297681732]] He then cites [[Hammurabi's code]] and [[The Founding Fathers]] as examples. These were two revolutionary systems of social organization. ^[The first and the most recent] [[Hammurabi's Code preserved hierarchy through deific justice]], engaging [[mythology]]. [[Most rights were denied to Americans at its founding]] #TO/TEND/WATER #### Other explanations If the [[social order]] we are talking about is [[capitalism]] then the origin is assumed to be our cynical egotistic nature. > [!cite]- [[The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber]] > > ![[10_Sources/books - The Dawn of Everything#^261572334]] ##### [[empires]] [[Empires are born through conquest and maintained by bureaucracy]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^308475511]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^308475512]] ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/SAPLING *edited 7:35 AM - July 08, 2022* **Topics**:: [[social order]], [[human behavior]] #### References ![[Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari#citation]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^297681739]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^297681757]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^297681730]]