Digital Domestication
A New Man begets a New God
Class, Race, and Cattle (I)
Up to and including this moment, every man has been domesticated into his present role. We are born with certain adaptations to our parents’ circumstances, forced to adapt to our own in order to survive. Luckily, survival has never been easier. Unfortunately, it’s never been so complex, so dynamic, and so fluid either.
Race is not merely a social construct but a biological phenomenon. The different peoples of the world adapted to their surroundings in different ways; it was not merely human ingenuity which gave rise to agriculture, but the very environments in which agriculture erupted. Jungle peoples in Brazil, uncontacted to this day after centuries of Columbian exchange, continue to live as hunter-gatherers in the dense rainforest, never developing agriculture because it is for them impossible. They have not the tools, animals, or resources necessary. The technologies needed to turn dense jungle into lush cattle pasture or e…
