HUMANS AREN’T EVER NOBLE SAVAGES. THERE IS NO GLORY IN BARBARISM: Humans invented writing to track debts. The world’s first writing system, cuneiform, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3200 BC to record who owed what to whom. Clay tokens for accounting date back as far as 8000 BC. Debt isn’t some corruption of a golden age. It’s so fundamental to human cooperation that we created literacy because of it.
AND FOR: The Cancelled of X.