The most basic civilizations develop customs, folkways, traditions, and rituals based on the day-to-day need to survive. The rhythms of life center on the patterns of the land the tribe occupies: Hunting, sowing, fishing, and reaping. The tide comes in. The herd migrates. The crops are gathered before the first snow. Religion honors these moments. Festivals celebrate them. A shared language communicates their importance. It s a language that only they speak and only they understand.
00:01:08.320A shared language communicates their importance.
00:01:11.640It's a language that only they speak and only they understand.
00:01:15.840Because only the tribe lives in this particular pattern.
00:01:19.660Members of the tribe must learn the patterns of life or perish.
00:01:23.540The stories and songs passed from one generation to the next communicate these patterns and tell of great deeds to be emulated.
00:01:33.300He who secured a great harvest through wise planning.
00:01:37.080He who fed his whole family through winter after felling a great beast.
00:01:41.660He who defended against a rival tribe through great courage.
00:01:45.560Positions of authority are created and proto-institutions, generally religious or martial in nature, are founded.
00:01:52.740Everything is formed around the way of being present in the tribe.
00:01:57.260Every tradition, leadership position, instruction, piece of literature, or song is created within the context of these patterns.
00:02:05.660Every belief, every piece of culture, every aspect of social organization is coded for the survival of a specific tribe and the continuance of their way of life.
00:02:18.420The patterns, the roles, the structures of being are sacralized through ritual and repetition.
00:02:24.940All communication, verbal and non-verbal, is referential to this way of being.
00:02:32.040Legend, art, song, and language layered upon each other.
00:02:36.660Each form of expression references the other and the wider experience is specific to the tribe.
00:02:43.660Passage into adulthood, oaths of battle, marriage, and death are all defined by these patterns.
00:02:50.260The child is born into these patterns, raised in these truths, and is honored in death by these rituals.
00:02:57.920Every thought, every belief, every concept entertained is molded by this web of cultural symbols.
00:03:05.640The information passed from one generation to another through tradition carries the code for replicating that specific civilization.
00:03:14.280The traditions are for those which experience a specific way of being in a specific context.
00:03:21.720Taboo and custom create negative feedback, allowing the society to achieve homeostasis.
00:03:28.500The code resists novelty in favor of stability.
00:03:32.580Only that which succeeds over a long series of trials is incorporated into the tradition.
00:03:38.640Moments of challenge may call for radical divergence,
00:03:41.520But radical success must follow before changes are made to the code.
00:03:46.580In some cases, the tribe would rather die as themselves than alter the code and survive as something else.
00:03:53.240The code creates civilization by binding identity.
00:03:57.320The tradition forms a great chain of being, which many mistake for a shackle,
00:04:02.660by defining what the individual can and should be.
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00:05:08.900This tradition, this code, this accumulation of intelligence specific to the tribe can be understood as its own entity.
00:05:18.260Individual actors may make their own decisions,
00:05:20.920but those decisions are thoroughly informed by the code that has defined their world.
00:05:26.040Every thought they've ever had, every word they've ever uttered,
00:05:30.180and every action they've ever taken was shaped from the ground up by the code.
00:05:35.060The code is pre-rational in forming underlying concepts and actions
00:05:40.220well before any string of logic has been applied to justify those actions.
00:05:45.220The members of the tribe whose world is defined by the code serve the code,
00:06:51.320But inevitably, one nation finds itself in a position of governing other peoples.
00:06:56.380When this occurs, the dominant nation must find a way to reliably and profitably interact with other peoples they now rule.
00:07:05.040If the governed peoples share a culture similar to the dominant nation, this can be relatively easy to achieve.
00:07:13.040A shared language often means not just the ability to communicate, but a shared mode in which concepts themselves are shaped.
00:07:21.400A shared religion will usually mean a similar moral vision,
00:07:26.160allowing for small compromises to accommodate custom while retaining the binding nature of the faith.
00:07:32.660The code which defined the tribe must find a way to organize the new population which has now come under its control.
00:07:41.200A certain level of unity must be achieved to join the outsiders to the body as a whole.
00:07:46.620The more elements of being, or lines of code, if we must translate these terms into something vulgar and modern to avoid being embarrassed by them,
00:07:57.120that the two peoples share, the easier their integration into one entity becomes.
00:08:02.160Certain traditions will remain unassimilable to the whole,
00:08:06.780and a good ruler will recognize the prudence of allowing those behaviors which don't radically destabilize the collective
00:08:14.200to be practiced by the independent tribes or clans.
00:08:18.500Small differences in custom may even become treasured markers of identity.
00:08:23.180Members of Clan A have always celebrated the marriage feast with a goat,
00:08:27.180while Clan B has always served the traditional duck,
00:08:30.780but both take their vows in front of the same priest worshipping the same deity,
00:08:35.060and in this moment we see the emergence of the first overcode.
00:08:39.780The overcode is layered on top of the primal construction of civilization.