This should be called How Fiat Developed according to me. I don’t even claim that this is true, just that it is plausible.
The Ys
I will use the Ys to refer to the character of Jesus (Yesu, Yehushua, Yeshua, Yasoo) in the Christian Bible. We really don’t know if there was such a person, or a number of people, or if it was the prevailing feeling at the time that was being featured.
Disentangling
This is what was happening in the land of the Ys,
- A few Hebrews were exploiting the mass of Hebrews. They appropriated the wealth the unwashed masses generated.
- Romans soldiers provided the muscle, from threats to pain,
- Hebrew collaborators (aka, the merchants) took advantage of the structure to become wealthier.
The collaborator Hebrews complained about the Ys and eventually the Romans put them down. However, the story of an individual crucifiction is more dramatic and easier to pass along, so much so that it has carried to this day.
Long Time Coming
Assuming that the stories in the Hebrew Bible was more or less copied from similar stories in the area, resistance to being exploited had been raging for a long time.
In our ancestral state, humans were probably organized in small groups of related individuals. We shared resources within this group, and battled other groups for food and territory. Gradually groups gave way to organizing in tribes. After many millennia, these tribes began to merge into larger chiefdoms. Chiefdoms eventually merged into states. And states merged into empires. At every stage, competition raged between groups and was suppressed within groups.
Blair Fix, An Evolutionary Theory of Resource Distribution ∇
By the time Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan the idea that people were a warring species was already completely normalized. Hobbes argued that humanity’s natural state was a “”war of all against all.“
If there is hierarchy, … access to resources will grow with hierarchical power.
Blair Fix, An Evolutionary Theory of Resource Distribution
ENDNOTES
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Blair Fix. An Evolutionary Theory of Resource Distribution (part 2). Oct 17, 2019. <https://radicals.world/dAUTbp>
