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“For in more advanced modes of social organization, firstness will become a major force, and this could not be the case were it not present in latent form from the beginning, in the egalitarian societies we presume existed at the origin of humanity in contrast with the pecking-order hierarchies of apes.”

— Eric Gans, Reciprocity and Firstness · Saturday, January 11th, 2014 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment