"[..] which leads to laws, courts, police, hierarchy, patriarchy, taxes, accounting, bureaucracy, and high-fructose corn syrup."

Which also leads to writing, mathematics, trade, roads, cities and, ultimately, enough free time to do something else than just farming, which, in turn, leads to philosophy, politics, science and more or less everything else that does make up developed society.

Advancētas lopkopju-nomadu vai mednieku-vācēju civilizācijas varbūt ir iespējamas principā, taču šķiet, ka cilvēku gadījumā tas tomēr nav novērojams.