{"id":43164,"date":"2025-08-10T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=43164"},"modified":"2025-08-10T23:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:26:12","slug":"pre-columbian-democracy-based-on-containing-ones-ego-rather-than-flaunting-ones-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/pre-columbian-democracy-based-on-containing-ones-ego-rather-than-flaunting-ones-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"PRE-COLUMBIAN DEMOCRACY BASED ON CONTAINING ONE\u2019S EGO RATHER THAN FLAUNTING ONE\u2019S EGO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-35.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66868\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Google AI Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to David Graeber and David Wengrow\u2019s book&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Dawn of Everything<\/em>, some pre-Columbian democracies, particularly in&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JDO28CPAPuM\">pre-Columbian Central America (present-day Mexico), YouTube<\/a>,&nbsp;<strong>emphasized the containment of one\u2019s ego rather than its flaunting<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This suggests a different model of political leadership and societal organization where humility, collective well-being, and potentially, reciprocal obligations among individuals and the community, played a significant role, rather than the pursuit of individual power or prestige.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book highlights that such societies were able to achieve complex forms of organization and even monumental constructions without necessarily relying on hierarchical structures or authoritarian rule typically associated with the development of \u201ccivilization\u201d in Western thought.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google AI Overview According to David Graeber and David Wengrow\u2019s book&nbsp; The Dawn of Everything, some pre-Columbian democracies, particularly in&nbsp;pre-Columbian Central America (present-day Mexico), YouTube,&nbsp;emphasized the containment of one\u2019s ego rather than its flaunting.&nbsp; This suggests a different model of political leadership and societal organization where humility, collective well-being, and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/pre-columbian-democracy-based-on-containing-ones-ego-rather-than-flaunting-ones-ego\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43165,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43164\/revisions\/43165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}