Thanks very much. Medium certainly isn't a meritocracy. There are plenty of great articles that are buried and that have hardly any readers or claps. And there are lots of obscenely popular articles that are garbage. Isn't it amusing how hidden gems help demonstrate life's unfairness?

This article is part of a series I did on the nature of civilized culture. So if you're looking to follow up on it, the links below would be relevant, as would the section or "list" on history (the second last link). My writings on a pragmatic theory of truth would also be relevant, which you can find in my section on the "secrets of philosophy" (last link).

https://historyofyesterday.com/were-prehistoric-people-childlike-b688bc6dcacd?sk=bfd05b650b87855d6b589dc39e6afb43

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-to-find-the-absurdist-comedy-in-historical-progress-a83e34536b4c?sk=39feec02dfe72f80a91166f98bb1a9cd

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/how-we-hallucinate-the-legal-fiction-of-private-property-e155ac52ce30?sk=5e46fb185742a35c851fd97bca36c1e0

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/philosophys-childishness-and-history-s-anticlimax-c669c9e02046?sk=cb5fdc8bbccb210587a122fd2118660f

https://benjamincain8.medium.com/list/history-32b35a149dd0

https://benjamincain8.medium.com/list/secrets-of-philosophy-ea523782c3e1