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The historical record doesn't cover any culture at all which does not in some way have to deal with agricultural and imperial societies, even if those cultures are resisting these forces.
Exactly my point.
Agriculture is not the enabling factor of human existence in most areas. Agriculture is the enabling factor for settlements of many people in most areas. Humans populated the entire Earth prior to agriculture.
Again, exactly my point. Agriculture is the thing enables hierarchies like this. Personal agrarian community is a compromise to me because we already have people to support who wouldn't survive a transition to a system we know hierarchy can't proliferate, which is hunting and gathering. I think civilization is possible (however unlikely) only at the most personal level, and every step beyond that personal level we see the consequences of empires.