Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth?
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#2The kid is wearing factory made shoes.
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#3The kid is wearing factory made shoes.
you're wearing a hunter gatherer genome, whats your point?
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#4Of course, farming didn't overtake hunter-gathering because farmers are happier. It overtook because farming can feed massive armies capable of conquering hunter-gatherer land by force.
Although I guess, in the end, not being conquered/enslaved/killed might make people happier.
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#5The kid is wearing factory made shoes.
Hunting and gathering with modern tools might be not that bad of a lifestyle for idle humans in a world where robots can do everything better.
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#6Also mentioned in 'Sapiens'.
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#7I'm going to write a new book that argues people who don't read this kind of BS are happier than those that do. Could back that with stats too (just ignore the correlation/causation thing...)
Watching your children die due to diseases that are totally trivial in our non-hunter-gatherer society makes you happy. oooookaaaay... FFS
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#8Also mentioned in 'Sapiens'.
A lot.
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#9The only time I'm relaxed and feel happy is when I am out in untamed nature - seeing and hearing nature. It doesn't matter if its just a hike or "working" hard on trail maintenance. If this[1] is true, "Every 2.5 minutes, the American West loses a football field worth of natural area to human development."
Walking down the street among human development just doesn't do anything for me, so I quit going outside. It seems like expulsion from the biosphere.
I wonder if other people feel this way, whether consciously or not.
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#10The only time I'm relaxed and feel happy is when I am out in untamed nature - seeing and hearing nature. It doesn't matter if its just a hike or "working" hard on trail maintenance. If this[1] is true, "Every 2.5 minutes, the American West loses a football field worth of natural area to human development." Walking down the street among human development just doesn't do anything for me, so I quit going outside. It see…
There's also a huge mental cost induced by society. Everything, has to have a purpose, a ROI; everything has a price (even free, it takes space).
When you live in nature, you just do as you feel. No reference, no efficiency, it's freeing; and that's a feeling you rarely get in society.