> This article (and book) seems pre-occupied with trying to tell you that everything we've learned up to this point is entirely wrong and that the New World was

> This article (and book) seems pre-occupied with trying to tell you that everything we've learned up to this point is entirely wrong and that the New World was a utopia before the filthy Europeans arrived. The article might try, but the first pages of the book actually say exactly the point you want to make. No wilderness utopia, and no chaotic barbarism.