LETTERS

摘要

Ian Morris is non-committal about the likely outcome of the struggle between the egalitarian and the privileged in this world (18 April, p 28). Underneath the hierarchical values of agrarian society there was always the egalitarian hunter/ gatherer nature. To overcome it the liars, cheats and bullies that ruled over us had to spin many a nonsense. Education brought about the rise of the middle class - necessary for production and the wealth of countries to grow. It has also worked a permanent change that alongside new means of recording and transmission means we won't be so easily bamboozled again.