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Why stop there? I don’t think Native Americans lived in log cabins. Antibiotics and modern medicine should undoubtedly be cast to the trash heap as well. I can’

• beauzero 8y ago
  ...and I think we will start seeing that happen. I relate this to the Pamphlet wars when printing became cheap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet_wars History repeats itself...well it's at least similar.
  • avoutthere 8y ago
    Thank you for posting this. I had not heard of the Pamphlet wars.
• jadedhacker 8y ago
  Primitivism is justly derided, but there are other solutions to the alienation caused by our modern money driven technological society. We can have a better world if we ask for one.
• ewzimm 8y ago
  That's not taking it nearly far enough. Our distant ancestors were very adept at destroying ecosystems and causing extinctions with only flint and spears. They massively disrupted every environment they explored. If we want to live non-destructively, we should ban even the use of fire and sharp sticks. In one way of looking at it, all technology, even the most primitive, is sufficient for destruction. From another point of view, the tool itself is not the real problem.
• lainga 8y ago
  Language and agriculture, too, were raw deals for humans (see Sapiens), and should be dismantled as soon as possible.