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It's not even primitive, just communism. The idea that peoples without civilization are held back or stuck in the past is a problematic worldview as well, and doesn't hold up well with the archeological evidence either.

edit: I strongly recommend the Book "The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow, on this very topic

homeostasis as a word certainly existed at this time, but in the biological sciences, and means a system which is self regulating. Im sure that would have changed their opinion on the piece somewhat had they found out.