OR . . . do they go together like a horse and carriage, two inextricably linked nodes with the matrix machine that arose together and nourish each other to the point where we cannot distinguish between them? Does this question make sense? What does that mean, “make sense”? Is this question relevant? Relevant to what, or whom? Etc. Etc.
More questions: are the only two viable forms of human civilization socialist/communist or capitalist? Viable to whom or what?
These are the kinds of questions that David Graeber and David Wengrow, in their extraordinarily mind-blowing new book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, tend to ask.