Those are some great straw-man arguments! Anyone who says that "Before the 20th century people lived off the land, and all was good" is an idiot and guilty of v

Those are some great straw-man arguments! Anyone who says that "Before the 20th century people lived off the land, and all was good" is an idiot and guilty of vast oversimplification. More importantly, the author never said anything like that. I've read a lot of what Ran has written, and he advocates MOVING FORWARD and in fact demolishes the silly "future primitive" approach. Going back is a conservative viewpoint, and he is most certainly not conservative. What he constantly returns to is that we are not at the pinnacle of human societal development, and that by leaving behind SOME of the problems of our current society (like wage-slavery) and creating new societal ideas and forms, we can go forward to a better place. Oh yeah, by the way, I don't think Ran has ever written about development in Africa, and he actually loathes hard labor and would be the first to agree that farm labor can really suck! But don't worry, some people may not notice that your comment has nothing to do with the stated purpose of this comment section, namely COMMENTING ON THE ARTICLE AT HAND.