People ask what early humans really were, and want the campfire and the spear. Nevzorov takes both away in the fifth chapter of the book I read for NOX. Here is his case, in his words.
The anatomy says predator - nowhere
"It should be remembered that early man was never a hunter." A predator is marked in the body: teeth, claws, gut, vision. Man has none of it. His jaw muscles are "eight times more modest than even a macaque's."
A killer? Yes. A hysteric? Undoubtedly. But in no way a predator.
Nevzorov // The Origin of Genius and Fascism
Where the hunter myth came from
"In the nineteenth century Charles Robert Darwin dunked man's proud visage into his ancient evolutionary" past - and the ancestor turned out to be a scavenged monkey. So "culture strained itself and painted a stone 'Berdan rifle' onto the disgraceful granny." But a weapon changes nothing: "a revolver in the paw does not make a monkey a predator. It just makes it a dangerous monkey." Tools "did not raise man's biological status."
What he actually was is unsentimental: "He is a scavenger." Even his stomach acidity matches "the black-headed gull, the opossum, and other lovers of putrid meat." His packs formed for the reasons hyena packs form - "hunger, fear."
The pack as a singularity
Then the turn. That scavenging pack, Nevzorov argues, was "the starting point of human history... a kind of homo singularity," holding "the entire future of this creature. From the red Assyrian beards to the gas chambers of Auschwitz." Millions of years pass and "only the props will change." Name any human -
Archimedes, Chikatilo, Heisenberg, or Stalin, we are always speaking of a washed and costumed pithecanthropus.
Nevzorov // The Origin of Genius and Fascism
And the law running the whole show, he says, is older than man and indifferent to him: "'Fascism' is simply the homely human name of the law of the organization of matter. It is for precisely this reason that it is immortal." That is the cold floor the whole series stands on.