Do you seriously want to rebuild lost cultures in the future? That sounds like a horrible idea to me. There are very few lost cultures that represent desirable or even practical modes of living today. #slavery #murder_rate #emancipation #rationality #mortality #education #hunger
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Btw. the Hobbit and Star Wars are romantic descriptions of feudalist societies resisting industrialization. But the reason why the feudalist world was so pastoral was low population density: its inhabitants could feed few kids and the other ones died of disease and malnutrition.
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Oh, that one is our obvious consensus and does not have to be pointed out, I thought!
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The problem with tribal societies is precisely that they don't work at a larger scale. While the current systematic mode does not work, we cannot go back to tribes. We probably cannot even go back to cult mode. Sustainably working governance is an open research question, IMHO.
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You are right about large populations & sustainability. I am not at all arguing for turning back time at the global level. Simply not possible. But we can consciously choose bits and pieces of multiple cultures & adapt them to our needs today. It is an intelligent way of living.
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What we typically get is an unconscious choice, taken for us automatically by the market. Progress is never uniform in all directions. Human health and consciousness have suffered immensely in the modern age. Health is not just about infectious diseases, which are now curbed.
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If you look at a key correlate of health- longevity, we have tiny islands of extreme longevity. Okinawa in Japan, Sardinia in Italy etc. There, we have a strong bonding between people, culture and nature around them. We can help people to choose consciously in the future.
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We have very few places like this, and we don't even know what defines them, because apparently you don't get quite the same effect on the neighboring islands with similar lifestyles.
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