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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Wait, when?
If we're talking medieval times, nope had a lord to worry about
If we're talking bronze age, nope we were working farms for a lord precursor.
If we're talking prehistory, nope the men were murdering each other and the women captured as trophies.
There are plenty examples of communal matriarchal preindustrial societies, enough that anthropologists suspect that was the norm for prehistory. It's the invention of property, and thus inheritance and wealth accumulation and lineage, that leads to patriarchy and domination.
Göbekli Tepe is the only one that comes to mind, and maybe Çatalhöyük.
But what worries me is the skeletal remains that we find of males at dig sites with vast amounts of damage to them, and significantly less women and girl skeletal remains. Aeons later and the heterogeneity of the Y chromosome is suspiciously low in contrast to that shown in mtDNA.
To me that suggests a lot of killing and raping.
Or that prehistoric women and girls were extraterrestrial beings who, by and large, simply teleported away and died off-world, thus not leaving remains for us to find.
Hale-Bopp is absolutely chock full of the remains of prehistoric women. It's crazy up there. Can't even play hopscotch, what with all the femurs and skulls everywhere.