1/ while I agree w the ethos expressed here, the actual facts are entirely wrong. For the vast majority of human history there has NOT been a frontier that normal people could get to, physically, economically, or legally ...and if they could, it would be even worse than staying https://t.co/fsEy9ntOEL
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10/ ...and this was not sensationalistic nonsense! It was based on newspaper articles, etc. "the American west" and "the era of homesteading" was like 20-30 years after the Indian Wars ended, and their power collapsed. It was ALMOST A PERFECT ANALOGY to the 1950s.
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11/ Humans basically can't survive on their own, in the wilderness, without a tribe. There is a reason that the worst punishment in hunter gatherer bands is exile, and second worst is ostracism.https://twitter.com/SchraderValves/status/1220732520662274048 …
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12/ This is an interesting assertion, but I don't buy it. A single man, wandering in the wilderness, is defenseless against other hunter gatherer tribes. We know that the homicide rate among hunter gatherers is very high. Single men don't wander >>>https://twitter.com/LucioMM1/status/1220734569990774785 …
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13/ ...any more than single chimpanzees do. Exile is a death sentence. Our brains excel in communication and social skills SO THAT we can band together in tribes in an intensely dangerous environment.
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15/ OK, but now we're no longer talking about "a man lighting out for the frontier", but are talking about "a tribe fractures in two". which, ok, sure, that happened ...but has nothing to do with the thesis of this thread.https://twitter.com/LucioMM1/status/1220735224495190016 …
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Happened to a few of my ancestors.
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AND COMANCHES LINED THE HILLS
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