Ian Welsh
The point isn't to go back to Paleo, it is to get an idea of what the healthy boundary conditions for human life are.
We've concentrated on the paleo diet critique of modern food w/o fully understanding what paleo lifestyle says about our pathologies.
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About how much did we work? How did we deal with kin and friendship? How did we sleep, play, etc?
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We don't need an exact copy, but we can say that when 20 hours work was paleo normal 40 paid + unpaid hours = crazy & pathological.
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You can note that humans spent time in close knit groups where they knew everyone and note that we don't.
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@iwelsh Golly, what ARE the odds? “Blah, blah, security, blah blah, sorry for inconvenience, blah blah, brown people=terrorists blah, blah” -
@revpaperboy that's part of the problem, yeah.
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You can note that humans grew up, yeah, sorry, being raised by the band, not a nuclear family. Nuclear families = pathological.
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But school, as we do it, is clearly pathological too. Children were raised by people they knew and would know all their lives.
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@iwelsh and thus were raised to be deeply suspicious of ‘the other’ -anyone outside the circle that raised them was the enemy. We’ve evolved -
@revpaperboy we have? The evolution was social, mostly religious. It is piled on top. -
@iwelsh was being a little sarcastic. We’ve evolved socially in that ‘band” is bigger, but often just as restrictive - church, block, gang -
@iwelsh going slightly larger: town, region, ethnicity, race, religion, nationality -
@revpaperboy and that's all fictive! Fortunate that humans love symbols so much. Or, maybe not... -
@iwelsh We are the animal that sees patterns and symbols
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Humans have drives and needs, and huge plasticity in meeting them. But not all working solutions (like ours) are healthy/happy solutions.
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Almost all of this is driven by an inability to handle surplus and violence beyond the band/tribe level.
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Humans cannot handle surplus because humans cannot handle much inequality. We are wired for equality.
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Inequality is HARD to establish. But once established it is hard to break, because most humans accept only social proof.
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Put another way, to humans, how it is is how it's always been and how it should be. Once inequality established, getting rid of it is HARD.
Rev.Paperboy
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