Unnecessary nastiness weakens a family's cohesiveness and endangers everyone. It is in everyone's interest to prevent squabbles and jealousies from weakening family unity - hence to discuss causes for discord until agreements are reached in which everyone is reasonably sure that his or her needs could not be better met in the context of what he or she has to offer the others. Such needs are often altruistic - people tend to want to protect the weak and helpless, babies and invalids, animals and plants, and to strive for a balanced order between each other and with other species. The need for justice goes beyond egoism. Customarily organized tribes are comparable to large families. Their members spend much time in palavers deciding who does, gives, gets what. These rights and obligations evolve from a need for fairness such that each, and all, benefit most.

This does not exclude disagreement - brawls, tribal wars. However, such disputes can be conducted in such a way that new alliances under new agreements are easily formed. They often imply new organizations and responsibilities. This is usually as necessary for societal renewal as mutual creative consumption in plant and animal species. Renewal is part of the fun of living. It implies replacement of those forms of life that would perpetuate the same organizations and organisms in dull repetitiousness.

The use of objects as bearers of meaning antedates writing. In general, such objects were not supposed to have much intrinsic value. Cuneiform marks in wet clay could be made more permanent by baking the clay to brick. Jewels and statuettes made of beautiful, non-corroding metals served as tokens of respect (medals...). They circulated little since respect is personal. Amulets and talismans were used to symbolize affection and commitment. In time, they became coins - bearers of value that circulated between people through space and time forming that medium of exchange known as 'money'.

The generalized use of heterogeneous pieces of metal as value bearers was instituted in the Middle East by institutions where they were initially given as proof of lasting affection and admiration. The recipients of these tokens were often women. They were understood to personify the fertility of nature, the earth and universe (#2.1). The women who received these tokens then gave them to men to do beneficial things with such as increasing the fertility of the land by digging irrigation canals, helping widows and orphans and the like. When men again gave the tokens to women as proof of affection in love temples [100], [580]26 they started to circulate between members of the community.

These temples became brothels when entrance fees were collected at their doors. The establishment's management kept a part of the receipts for itself. The rest served to keep it going - especially to protect the women inside from customers who did not want to pay the fees. The monopolization of the women to benefit from mens' natural tendencies to love women and want to care for their families was the beginning of the state and its systems of justice based on the injustice of the monopolized control of money.

Those men who controlled other men's natural needs to renew life accumulated large harems, much wealth and power. Powerful men no longer needed other peoples' respect and loyalty in order to command and exploit them. They paid other men to enforce whatever order they wanted by defining laws, spying on them, threatening and punishing those that did not obey them. The rest of the community could also be induced to accept their institutionalized injustice by divine intervention. Priests could be paid to explain to ignorant masses that their Lords were Gods whose commands had been dictated from heaven, and that those who did not obey them would roast in hell forever. Such organizational tools served to strengthen the systematic exploitation of the small and weak by the high and mighty.

The Great Lords cared as little for the beauties of nature as for the sufferings of their subjects. If there was money to make by cutting forests down, their slaves could be ordered to do it. Single men were told to satisfy their needs for female company elsewhere by raiding other tribes for their material wealth and slaves of both sexes. The females filled private and public pleasure palaces; the males were put to work making arms and building fortifications - and paid enough to keep them satisfied making more slaves in public pleasure places.

It was the beginning of the protection racket system. Men had to be forced to make weapons and fortresses to protect communities against external aggression. Forcing them to do this required oppressive systems of internal order. Potentates bullied retainers into obedience; judges, policemen, hangmen, priests helped them to control the rest of the population with monopolized brutality. It was also the end of the order based on the mutual respect of people for each other and their natural environment. The tokens of affection and respect for the female creative principle had become tools of their oppression and destruction. Recollections of this replacement of real by symbolic value are recorded in Bible. It was the fall from paradise (#3.1).