The Social Reactors Project: Human settlements and networks in history

[@TheDerstine]

excellent presentation!

[@christianmolick8647]

similar and relates to work by Geoffrey West at Santa Fe

[@brokenrulerlabs]

Human behavior would be predictable at a high level if western society and its academic set up (Archaeology included), take into consideration the scale of human means and methods over time or even just the last 100 years. The field only looks at western approved societies and disregards so many experiences that result in behaviors over time thats out of your view. Look at the African American struggle for equality from Jim Crow until todays Black Lives Matter movements. What behaviors can you generalize have brought the larger group through? Sure they had their own networks, yet how have those networks helped them? Poor health outcomes, continued racism, etc. These discussions don’t really plant themselves in reality, but then you will accuse me and those who think like me as not understanding how you are characterizing this process. Tell us this, at a 40,000 foot view level, how has the behavior of humans traveling and migrating as a condition of our survival been disrupted with the advent of political and economic boarders in place? You academic methods don’t consider the behaviors that lead to terrarium and social break down. What about human behavior explains poverty in a time of plenty or allowing AI to manage our lives when we have not solved the challenges that come with social media behaviors? Have we seen such wholesale shifts and adaptations? What’s the purpose of this work you are doing? How does this improve the lot of a young person with talent being stuck in a network that does not see them?