• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Because for most of it, we were living our lives, planting the trees that gave us food, protecting the animals we ate from other predators, and just living off the land. We spread over the entire world and shaped the land to better suit us

    We weren’t primitive, for millennia we turned most of the world into a paradise built for us, then tore it down in a few centuries and are now flirting with extinction

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      3 months ago

      That is a lovely picture you are painting but there is certainly no evidence we “built a paradise” for ourselves. There would still be famine, struggle for resources, war and uncountable problems in the daily struggle for survival.

      It’s not as simple as “past good, present bad”.

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        3 months ago

        There was always struggle over territory. Generally non lethal, just like predators facing off

        There was no war. War requires agriculture - an army cannot march or camp without food constantly being shipped in

        Famine also is usually due to agriculture - monocultures and short-sighted management of the environment.

        There were hard times. Droughts happened, sickness happened, people were not always very cool to each other. These things weren’t done on institutional scale, because the only institutions were meetings between groups occasionally sending representatives

        The more I learn about ancient history, the more I realize we fucked everything up societally. Technology is great, and yes we have a lot less mothers dying in childbirth… Except we didn’t for most of recorded history (and we’re backsliding), because literal childbirth in the woods was better than delivery in a hospital until a century ago

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      3 months ago

      We’ve never lived in paradise. It has always been a hard struggle not to die all this time. That struggle is easier than ever but still a struggle.