The Neolithic Error In The Epic Of Gilgamesh

Humanity needs government in order to thrive and progress. According to the documents that describe the Neolithic error, which will later be discussed in depth, the laws that were set up by government were there to guide the people in moral and spiritual conduct. Furthermore if it were not for the ‘social ladder’ created by government, there would be no aspiration for elevation which resulted in competition among the people. The government also generated the need for specialists. As the state grew, people began to specialize in various areas; the need for documentation in the form of writing grew, therefore scribes and artisans were established.
With the rise of agriculture, new challenges arose, and the man who showed extensive knowledge of the land and who was willing to capitalize on his skill became the leader of the
He takes sons away from their father, presumably for his army, and he rapes the women. The people have had enough, and they plead to their gods to help them. The gods hear them and grant them their petition in the form of Enkidu. “He was innocent of mankind; he knew nothing of the cultivated land.” Cultivated land speaks about agriculture. Enkidu represents the people but also how the people were before the system of government; wild and free, with no one telling them what to do or how to behave. Made by the goddess Aruru, he was like a wild beasts and innocent and had no knowledge of agriculture which was what brought about the system of government and specialist like astrologist who knew when to plant crops based on the sky. Enkidu is then taught human ways by a woman and thus he becomes civilized. No longer is he accepted by the wild beast because he no longer thinks like them. He becomes knowledgeable in things, and essentially this implies that government brings