I have been thinking a lot lately about the point "such an attitude represents a tremendous degree of disrespect of our forepersons". The other day I watched "

I have been thinking a lot lately about the point "such an attitude represents a tremendous degree of disrespect of our forepersons". The other day I watched "Cargo" on Netflix, in which after a civilisational collapse, many indigenous Australians are depicted as going "back to the old ways". I found this quite problematic: it suggests that the pre-European way of life was so easy that a bunch of adults can just _start doing it again_. As if it's some natural animalistic habit you can just fall into, and not a set of skills and knowledge that evolved over millennia. I guess it's possible we were supposed to read that these people's communities had passed down that knowledge and experience across the intervening centuries. Maybe they have.