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This makes my heart ache so much that I can hardly bear to read it. I also feel like I detect a note of insecurity in many of the comments - it's as if the idea
by Boothroid 9y ago
This makes my heart ache so much that I can hardly bear to read it. I also feel like I detect a note of insecurity in many of the comments - it's as if the idea that our modern lifestyle and its impacts may be problematic and or in some aspects inferior to pre-modern ways of living is somehow threatening, and must therefore be rejected. I think it's massively ignorant and brutish to view earlier civilisations with such contempt, and collectively suicidal for humanity for us to carry on regardless when the Earth seems to be giving us plenty of signs that we are heading for disaster unless we change.
- pyroinferno 9y agoThese aren't noble-savages, the amount of killings in these pre-modern tribes are horrific. Per-capita they are way beyond any Western Civilization. If you think having disdain for murder is "brutish" then I think you're fucked in the head.
- feralmoan 9y agoTopical, I watched a movie last night that covers a lot of the things you mentioned - Lost City Of Z http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428 it didn't get great ratings but was good, cinematic and thoughtful imho
- Boothroid 9y agoCheers for the tip, looks right up my street and is on Netflix
- swlkr 9y agoIf you're interested in the idea that primitive people had something there you should read the unabombers manifesto