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colexdev
1 year ago
New post/essay on the longevity and lives of hunter gatherers. It does not go into as much detail as I would like, but I am still learning. I will update and or make a part 2 sometime in the future.
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mikegrindle
1 year ago
Great essay. Youβve clearly put a lot of thought and research into this. One thing I think is worth mentioning, is that (if memory serves me right) early agriculturalists were thought to have lived a hybrid lifestyle, both farming and hunting/gathering. To them, it probably seemed like a good trade off because there was no βtrade off.β They had the best of both worlds until the population increase.
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colexdev
1 year ago
Yes Mike I believe you are right. I believe they called them forager-horticulturalists. I may go back and expand upon that. That is actually discussed in the book "Sapiens", they did not see a tradeoff initially, it just slowly got to the point of what we know as agricultural civilization, like a frog in a boiling pot.
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colexdev
1 year ago
Nothing to see here. I wish I could choose when these updates push so that when I am just making small changes it wouldn't show up.
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colexdev
1 year ago
I really need to make more time to read, as I have mentioned previously, my reading list grows significantly faster than I can get through it.
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daliwali
1 year ago
i've read Walden, very slow to get through meditations on living in nature, such a life comes with its own challenges but in my opinion much better than living in the urban hellscape.
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the-study
1 year ago
"I really need to make more time to read, as I have mentioned previously, my reading list grows significantly faster than I can get through it." Me too. I have a backlog of both physical and digital books to read lol
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Has anyone else wondered about hunter-gatherers, our ancestors, lives and wondered if they were brutish, short and hard or if they were fairly prosperous? This has been on my mind for a long time now and I am finally diving in and doing the research and learning as much as I can about it. I am hoping to push out an essay sometime soon about this.
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daliwali
1 year ago
pretty sure that hunter-gatherers worked less and lived far less stressful lives than civilized humans, but that applies even to peasants which were most humans up to the modern era.
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colexdev
1 year ago
You would be surprised how little farmers and peasants gained vs how much they lost up until fairly recently when things improved.
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daliwali
1 year ago
the agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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I am currently unsure of the future of my site.
for the longest time, I have thought that maybe I don't want 3-letter agencies to know what I think. but this is coming from a position of fear, if one person has a controversial opinion they can be silenced, but a whole part of the country? I think the problem is more fundamental, ppl unwilling to take a stance, because of that evil will win