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Simple: we don't replicate the lives of past peoples. We take ideas from [our ideas of] the past and find out if they work for us. And... it doesn't need to be
by digging 3y ago
Simple: we don't replicate the lives of past peoples. We take ideas from [our ideas of] the past and find out if they work for us. And... it doesn't need to be from indigenous New World people.
- nradov 3y agoHardly simple. You are talking about running huge social experiments based on guesses about what might work better. It would be interesting to see the results of such experiments, but extremely difficult to convince people to participate.
- digging 3y ago> You are talking about running huge social experiments based on guesses about what might work better No, I'm not. But it's a good idea. > extremely difficult to convince people to participate Yes - easier to just stop tricking people into known-unhealthy behaviors first. > Hardly simple. The answer is simple. The implementation may or may not be [more simple than trying to replicate the lives of people in the past].