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most of us in the developed world don't have to worry about our immediate survival on a day-to-day basis Neither do hunters and gatherers. Turns out that hunte
by madebylaw 17y ago
most of us in the developed world don't have to worry about our immediate survival on a day-to-day basis
Neither do hunters and gatherers. Turns out that hunter gatherers (at least the ones surveyed) just sit around most days and rarely worry about their immediate survival either. If you're interested in more information, this is a seminal work for anthropologists studying this topic:
http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm
I would agree that, for me, life in modern society is a net positive, but that is a personal decision shaped by my own cultural biases. Is modern society inherently better than a hunter gatherer one? No, I don't think so.
- dantheman 17y agoI think that modern society is inherently better since no one lives the hunter gatherer one when given a chance. There are still places where one could go and hunt/gather food etc but I don't know of anyone that does that.
- madebylaw 17y agoMost modern hunter gatherers wouldn't want to live in modern society either. See the Sahlins' paper above or a recent National Geographic article on a similar group: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/12/hadza/finkel-text http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/12/hadza/finkel-text Again, if modern society was inherently better, why are there modern hunter gatherers at all? Shouldn't they all have joined us by now? It is not for lack of opportunity. They like their culture and their lifestyles. They don't want to join us as much as we don't want to join them.
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