Every time I take an international trip and reinforce my physical sense of the world as a single, connected physical planet (views out the window of vast oceans, continental shores etc) I am reminded of the utter bullshittiness of anti-globalism... (1/few)
I don’t think there’s a basic human urge to territorialize. The reverse in fact. We’re more nomadic than sessile.
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are domesticated agriculturalist city-building humans the same as the ancestral nomadic hunter-gatherer humans? has it been long enough (in terms of selection pressure) that we're now something different than what we came from?
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I don’t think so. Against the Grain by James Scott specifically argues that sedenterization by agriculture in near east happened against very stiff resistance. 10k years since Neolithic is mere instant in evolutionary time.
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You don't feel a profound comfort in familiar surroundings? I recall a ribbonfarm post about how you always find a Starbucks/wifi-enabled coffee shop to work in, no matter where you go. What if one's comforting place only has a single instantiation on the entire planet?
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I learned Starbucks-comfort as a 23 year old adult. I can easily adapt to other environments. If someone can really can only find a sense of home in one fixed place they are probably severely dysfunctional or mentally ill.
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