Thus we see that as human society evolved, the "and" was stretched out, thinned almost to the point of nonexistence. But in another sense, both the "and" and the "or" thrived as never before. Think of the thousand of people who worked together to build the great pyramids. Think of the multinational corporations, the vast government bureacracies. Granted, these connections were superficial and temporary when compared to the connections found in hunter gatherer socieities. However, their scope was and is monumental.
The "or" has grown on a comparable level as the division of labor keeps expanding. The expansion of the "or', of course, contains the seeds of its own destruction. As man developes more and more specialties, he developes tools, and now robots and computers, that will one day render the division of labor a nullity.
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