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Yeah we're supposed to never leave our village for our 40 year lifespan, fear this that go against our myths and tradition and violently castigate those we deem different enough for us.
Or maybe civilization itself was too much and we should live in even smaller groups with our numbers limited by no agriculture.
Why do we hate Netflix and abundant food?
Couldn't we keep civilisation and change how we spend our time?
It was talking about what we were made to do. We've been around for 200k years and had agriculture for 10k years so that's what I was going on.
There's ample evidence that living in small-scale tribal societies really is the best for our emotional and psychological health. There are entire books on the subject. The problem is that we can't go back to that, nor would we want to. I would argue that we are still figuring out how to adapt to agriculture, it having been such a recent development in human history.
I don't necessarily know what the best path forward looks like, but I do know that what we've built here in the US isn't sustainable because it's not working for too many people.
Yeah -- I agree but that all feels better explained by the 300 year empire rule or decadence of empire stuff than what are humans made for questions, but I see the connection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadence
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/politics/the-average-empire-survives-for-250-years-is-america-at-deaths-door