Deep History: from the origins of language to the end of print literacy in the United States

preliminaries i late 19th century racism (as an ideology performed by the intellectual elite of Anglo-saxonia.  See quotes from Darrwin, Wallace . . . ) militantly affirmed that civilized (read White) Man was sui generis: there was no Inner Ape.  That view has by now, at least in elite intellectual circles, been thoroughly demolished. Nevertheless aggression and violence, especially of alpha males among Chimpanzees, continues to be addressed by politically active people and moderately educated citizens as a problem in today's world as somehow entirely disconnected from our primate inheritance.  I posit not only the obvious (de Waal, Marcus, Whiten etc), but also an hypothesis that patrimonial power is an elaboration but not transcendence of "dominance asserted through violence  or threat"--that "Trump" and "Putin" draw upon and elaborate within the semiotic web of civilization a Chimpanzee Politics of alpha male domination as opposed to the political praxis of republicanism.  This is the central conflict that gives us the "faction" fight within the UAW from 1933 to 1943 (dates are necessarily arbitrary, but the necessity of dealing with/constructing intervals remains). This "faction fight" maps onto McMahon; together, the faction fight and McMahon map onto the two-party system in the United States.	A History of Archaeological Thought Our Inner Ape Chimpanzee Politics Weber, Lachman, Adams McMahon
preliminaries ii patrimonial power/regimes is an elaboration but not transcendence of "dominance asserted through violence or threat draw upon and elaborate within the semiotic web of civilization a a politcs of alpha-maleism.  What we see today in the Trump phenom is a performance of alpha male domination through a politics of identification mediated by media and local cultures (gyms, bars, salons, small groups such as the militia (White-Hot Hate).  This  is made possible by the enormous webs of think tanks, media, political consultants, soth  that the leverage of the Ffuher is as a result enormous, especially for angry males for whom the pssiblities of entering adulthood have been undermined by Globalization Enlightenment/Progressive (including "marxist" which on this level of anlaysis is indistinguishable from Enl.Prog) synthetic a prior is summarized by . . . . . (various authors) This whole enter[rise--this site--emerged from a half-centry encounter with the failure of EnPrMa fundamental conceipt (rational man); and with the hegemony of cartesian discursive fundamentals (geneative matrix) through the "modern" world.  (Emden-Nietzsche)	The Sapient Paradox
𝟏 Thisis the context in which to comprehend (1) The Sermon on the Mount.  It is ironic, to say the least, that the  "Christian Party" spits on the Sermon on the Mount with every step, every breath it takes; and it is equally striking that the entire apparatus of Liberal media seems unable to make anything of this, unable to even point this out.  The intellectual bancruptcy of Liberalism is thus exposed.  In this text citizen Christ points out the fundamental problems homo sapiens faces in complex societies.  This text, taken as a secular document rather than as the word of you know who, remains foundational, is even more alive today than it was then, and the probmeatic its addresses is with us still, anbd in a more pressing form, with greater urgency
𝟐   Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.  The revolution in thought associated with this work is perhaps of even greater significance than the scientific revolution (associated names: Copericus, Descartes, Newton).  Nomothetic vs. hermeneutical semioitic webs/praxes.  The question of agency cannot be addressed nomothetically.  Agency is about life; nomothetic (scientific-materialist reductionist empricism) is only about dead matter.  This whole site began in thought with my encounter with Hegel more than a half-century ago; in practice with my work in the 1970s in collaboration with the bildungsproletarians asociated with the emergence of the UAW.  (then, as a consequence of these encounters, I followed a thread to the FDR Library, stumbled into the papers of Morris L. Cooke, and the result was Figure ___, the Keynesian Elite in the New Deal State.	𝟏𝟐𝟑𝟒𝟓 𝟔𝟕𝟖𝟗 Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy
𝟐, 𝟑, 𝟒, and 𝟓 reading and literacy. Emergence of the "individual". Bildung and the Will to Power Bildungsproletarians and Plebeian upstarts NW Europe, Yankee: White Men (Reformation+ Knights of Labor etc) not the south of Wilbur Cash Central Europe, also prot descent Estern Europe skips reformation goes straight to secular bildung radicalism	Alcorn Steinberg Bildung.  The Enlightenment as a cultural-historical developmenetal leap (the Symbolic Order of progressivism) bildung2020 Lieven
𝟔, 𝟕, 𝟖, and 𝟗 the disintegration of language and cognition across a variety of performative domains