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Oldest continually running mining operation of mankind. Longest running school. A Hippocratic oath before Europeans genocided them. Forms of agriculture whi
by fit2rule 7y ago
Oldest continually running mining operation of mankind. Longest running school. A Hippocratic oath before Europeans genocided them. Forms of agriculture which literally guaranteed a well-fed populace. An understanding of antiseptic materials, and even micro-biology, in an age of European miasma theory and blood-letting.
There is much to learn about oneself once you drop the prejudice.
I'm not suggesting we haven't "advanced" beyond them now, but I am suggesting that we may have overlooked something in our race to the moon, and their 40,000 year old tradition of unbroken oral tradition ..
- pinkfoot 7y ago> There is much to learn about oneself once you drop the prejudice. Oh get over yourself - I asked "out of genuine curiosity."
- t-writescode 7y agoI think that was the ‘general you’ not you
- fit2rule 7y ago>Other thank some claims about land management and herbal medicine, what were that not only more advanced in but FAR more advanced? Snark detected.
- dang 7y agoYou've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and badly in your posts to HN. If you keep doing that, we're going to have to ban you. Would you please https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules instead? People posting here need to do that regardless of how bad other comments are or they feel they are.