Jared Diamonds ‘The World Until Yesterday’ is a great read for anyone interested in the differences between traditional societies and modern societies
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To the farmer, the thing that is different is a weed, to the hunter-gatherer it is dinner.
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pretending you can calculate the murder rate in Hunter gatherer societies is the height of scientific hubris.
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They look at hunter gatherer societies that still exist . . .
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Hunter gatherer societies that haven't been forced off their land by agrarian and industrial societies.
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which is a tiny, insignificant fraction of the total HG societies that have existed. Extrapolations from that are bunk.
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DNA from the fossil record would fit into the same argument. Should we abandon science and go back to guessing?
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Is Living the ultimate goal ?
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It is important for all other goals.
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Not at all ... in fact, not at All. ’Goals’ are totally irrelevant for the non-living
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Go look at that guys account and that's not even a hot take compared to the rest of the shit that goes through this guy's head
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I recall reading a collection of american indian accounts of life prior to significant European contact: Profound physical insecurity mentioned by several.
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Interesting, do you know the author/title of that reading by any chance?
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I think it was "Touch the Earth" compiled by T. C. McLuhan, Simon & Schuster 1971. The entries are definitely not saying Europeans improved the lot of Indians.
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What about the hunter-gatherer rates for suicide and drug abuse? Civilization has its discontents.
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