The previous post about the person who domesticated the chicken got me thinking about the type of people who are revered in the official histories and why there are official histories in the first place.
There have been many versions of corporations over the millenia. In the classical world, aristocratic families were really like corporations. They conflated the concept of ownership with a line of inheritance.
The modern corporation is a legal abstraction of that concept. "Ownership" of the corporation can be extended to a larger group of investors. In some cases, the original owner and family retain exclusive control of the entity and sell a sort of fictional version of ownership to the "public" via stock.
Some of those institutions propose a trade of an individual's agency for various rewards. The training and conditioning for that psychology starts in childhood. In modern times, groups like Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, public schools, sports teams, etc... train children to seek satisfaction and attainment via group goals. The military is the ultimate form of that mechanism where the soldier basically surrenders all their agency in exchange for ribbons and cheap metal and plastic jewelry and praise. Corporations are a very limited version of these organizations.
"History" is the memory of these corporate entities.
The current version of the fraud is that the corporation system can be made into a mathematical abstraction derived from "first principles" provided by scientific experts.
In the classical world, the Cynic Philosophers critiqued the fraud of that whole system. They were basically the Morpheus/Red Pill/alt media of their time. Nature and the natural order are contrary to the corporate/institutional roles of man.
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