Simon Paynton

Strega wrote:
it’s not just people dying, like snuffing out a candle. It’s about leprosy, polio, and a million savage unrepairable wounds. It’s about the misery of pain, and the proximity to animal violence that pervaded in your ‘sounds great’ description.

I take your point, that living conditions and the lack of advanced medicine would have made…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I’m saying there was no Garden of Eden or “Golden Age” or “Noble Savagery”, whether terrifying, beautiful, or otherwise.

No power, no oppression, no money, no patriarchy?  Sounds great.  It’s true that people died very young though.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
As rotten as things can be today, it was always worse in times past.

You’re talking about life in the Garden of Eden.  I think it must have been both terrifying and beautiful.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
But if too many members of a tribe got injured or sick at once, wouldn’t that mean less hunting and gathering and everyone would starve?

All the more reason to look after them and try and heal them.

I read of an instance where a hunter-gatherer tribe left behind an old lady who had dementia.  If people were/are being lo…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
And an assassin’s bullet did nothing but give Charlie Kirk martyr status

It did, and any political violence is deplorable.  Even if he was aggressively anti-liberal, he had the right idea in debating people.

@jakelafort – I stay out of the “left”, I won’t sign my name to any ideology.  I find them totally nuts.  I saw that Instagram post, and they seem to have forgotten that slavery was invented in the Bronze Age.  I’ve had conversations with feminists who are completely ideology-bound until you shock them out of it.  The big problem is gro…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
There would be little place for the very young, the very old, or the sick and infirm in a Hunter-Gatherer world.

That’s not true at all.  There’s plenty of evidence of prehistoric people caring for their sick and injured, and this evidence increases as we get nearer the present day.

E.g.:…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
if you would give the aspects of wokeness that you are supporting.

Just the general pro-human rights, pro-sexual freedom (except pedophiles), anti-racist, that’s it.

I think Republicans who are not being crooked snakes should have a respectable platform.  If they are being crooked snakes, they will have manufactured a platform…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Debunking the myth of truly egalitarian societies in human history.

We knew this already.  Present-day hunter-gatherers are not so egalitarian.  Except for the Batek of Malaysia, who are very egalitarian and do not have patriarchy, and the article does not contradict this.

demand-sharing, risk-pooling, s…

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