“The Mongols were quite numerous, though”
“Doesn't this also happen(ed) quite a bit in the Middle East, where people largely live off of livestock to survive?”
These two groups are pastoralists, not hunter-hatherers. Aryanism.net distinguished between farmers, hunters, and herders, and I suppose it is sensible to make this distinction, although I have concentrated on the differences between farmers and (some but not all groups of?) hunter-gatherers in this thread, and not talked about herders.
“But in that case, can we also agree that we don't have to worry as much about a expansionist agrarian civilization overturning self-restricting agrarian civilizations, as people did in ancient times?”
Yes. I’m not saying that it would be bad to move towards a low impact agrarian civilization in the present day. I’m only saying that the original transition from hunting to settled civilization caused a mental degradation of humanity. I'm just trying to explain what domesticated behaviour and thinking consists of and how domestication caused people to behave and think like that.
“We can say the same thing about agrarian society, that the people in charge will only be supported as long as they're respected.”
No. The thing that gives rulers in large, highly organised societies power is that everyone might have no respect for the leader, but each person can’t be sure what other people think. So in theory someone could kill the tyrant and everyone could just agree that it was good and the tyrants guards could just not arrest the assassin, but in practise the assassin will not kill the tyrant because he will think “The guards might decide to side with me but what if they don’t and they arrest me”. And if he does kill the tyrant, one of the (let’s say) two guards might think “I agree with him killing the tyrant but I can’t side with him because then the other guard might kill me” and the other guard might be thinking exactly the same thing as well. Now imagine that there are 100 guards thinking “I agree with the assassin but how likely is it that the other guards won’t arrest me if I take his side?”
“Unless you're in England”
You got it in one. Proud citizen of Bongistan.
“Is it a bad thing that civilization conflicts with undomesticated thinking?”
Yes, if you agree that the domesticated thinking include the traits I listed before and that those traits are negative, and hence that undomesticated thinking is positive.
“Personally, I think the modern disconnection from Sun, Earth, wind, water, and stars has caused enormous physical, psychological, and spiritual damage.”
Well yes, none of us want to look up at the night sky and see one of Musk-san’s space billboards advertising Coca-Cola.
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