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I suppose he miss explaining histories around a fire after a day of hunting in the wildness. There are something alienating in the way we live in big cities. W

• mhurron 11y ago
  > We miss the palaeolithic. Speak for yourself. All I see is forced interaction with people that are around you for reasons that have nothing to do with your choice to spend time with them.
  • adrusi 11y ago
    Except in the paleolithic these people would be your extended family, the friends you grew up with, etc. And because of the cultural homogeneity of such societies, you would get along better with them than people get along with their families today. In the modern context, these would be people you selected.
• soylentcola 11y ago
  Oddly enough, when I lived in more rural/suburban settings, I never really encountered anything I'd consider communal or primal/"paleolithic" but when I moved to a bigger city, I found many more ways to address those desires. Even if it's just having a corner bar where neighbors stop in for a meal or a beer in the evenings or getting together with nearby friends on various nights for board games or cookouts, I see a lot more community and shared activities. Much of it is only enabled by the proximity of urban life where the need to drive over to meet up is minimal or nonexistent. When I lived in the "boonies", any gathering had to be a lot more scheduled since you had to account for driving.