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Have you seen the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy"? I don't know if they're a good example but the !Kung seemed to live an idyllic life of ecological and social
by carapace 5y ago
Have you seen the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy"? I don't know if they're a good example but the !Kung seemed to live an idyllic life of ecological and social harmony.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoI haven't, I'll check it out. From what little I read about them, they were at times committing infanticide, so their life probably wasn't as idyllic as it would seem.
- carapace 5y agoncmncm could be right in that sib comment, it's not an anthropological documentary. > they were at times committing infanticide, so their life probably wasn't as idyllic as it would seem. I'm not sure how to respond to this. Infanticide is tragic, but they don't have condoms nor doctors who can perform abortions, so...? They live in a harsh environment (in the Kalahari Desert) so the ecological effects of overpopulation would be pretty evident to them, I imagine. They're not "expanding as much as they could and strip-mining their immediate environment", eh? But (if the movie is not a fable) they seem pretty happy.
- kragen 5y ago"Idyllic" primarily means "pertaining to everyday rural life", and there's no reason infanticide is incompatible with that.
- ncmncm 5y agoThat was not about any actual !Kung, although it had some in the cast. It was just a fable.
- kragen 5y agoThat movie was fiction. Don't reason from fictional evidence. It makes you look like a fool.
- carapace 5y agoSure, in general, but the first third of it is pretty much a documentary, or seems to be. It may well be a fable as ncmncm says in a sib comment, I don't know.
- kragen 5y agoNo, none of it is a documentary. The people in it are all actors; the main character is actually San, but in his everyday life, he was a cowherd, not a hunter-gatherer.