BluishLight

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   by BluishLight 9y ago

   I don't see any paywall, maybe is location-related. Anyway, do a `curl termbin.com/olua | less` and read it freely (1 month lifetime).
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   by BluishLight 9y ago

   I agree, absence of isolation in primitive societies can be a huge advantage.
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   by BluishLight 9y ago

   Probably it's me, because as you said there is nothing in the article that suggest a general idea like the one I exposed; probably I'm too pesimmistic. It's always nice (and interesting) to see how different people interpret
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   by BluishLight 9y ago

   I guess that the mentally ill would have suffered an extreme ostracism and violence from the population, but I also think that some of the conditions that lead to homelessness (drugs, alcohol, financial problems) are very recent.
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   by BluishLight 9y ago

   I agree, but after reading articles like this I always leave with the impression that the personal change doesn't need to be encouraged by the society, and must come solely from the individual. Like other commenter said in the post, so
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   by BluishLight 9y ago

   Sometimes it seems to me that histories like this put the weight of leaving poverty in the individuals himselves rather than the government social services, enforcing the myth that poor people is people that chooses to.