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The agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
by planetsprite 4y ago
The agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- nine_k 4y agoDo you mean that remaining primitive hunters-gatherers, as now observed in certain places near Amazon river, would be more of a success?
- civilized 4y agoThe grass is always greener
- planetsprite 4y agoThanks to chemical pesticides and industrial fertilizers.
- planetsprite 4y agoyes according to modern media sentiment. Never once have I watched a movie that argued for the antithesis of the "Avatar" respect nature mantra. I mean even without the warmongering factories are never portrayed in a positive light unless they're Willy Wonka's.
- civilized 4y agoI wouldn't figure what society you'd be happy in based on media depictions. They're selling you whatever you'll buy. They sold the Jetsons back in the day.
- panzagl 4y agoI think you need to rewatch/reread Willie Wonka...
- johnny22 4y agowhy do you need to argue for the existing society that mostly everbody agrees with. That'd make a boring movie.
- viraptor 4y agoThe media sentiment skips over the newborn deaths, starvation due to bad year of weather, families wiped by simple diseases, and all the other things we pretty much learned how to deal with.
- avgcorrection 4y agoYes. Thousands of years of class societies haven’t been great. But the revolution happened out of sheer necessity, not out of choice. Hunter-gatherer societies aren’t sustainable past a certain threshold of population density.
- ihm 4y agoI don't support trying to turn back the clock, but modern day hunter gatherers should not be thought of as a reliable picture of past hunter-gatherers. For one, they mostly inhabit some of the lowest quality land since the best land has been taken by industrial society. Past hunter-gatherers would have had their pick of land.
- bigodbiel 4y agoOur brains were certainly larger on an individual level, but those individuals could never surpass a few tens of thousands, spread globally, the farther the better!
- avgcorrection 4y agoWe built human civilization so that we could Show HN the app that we built. Take that, hunter-gatherers.
- hemreldop 4y ago