Journals of Toast 40
Posted by ezrast Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:11:00 GMT
I feel psychologically incapable of being concise. Maybe I just need a medium where developed paragraphs don't feel like impenetrable walls of text?
I feel psychologically incapable of being concise. Maybe I just need a medium where developed paragraphs don't feel like impenetrable walls of text?
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Hunter/Gatherer tribes had two interesting aspects: 1. There weren’t a lot of them. 2. High mortality rates, and an unpredictable future.
A smaller population makes foraging and migrating easy. You have a small group that moves around eating stuff, and then when it regrows they, or another tribe, go eat it again. With over six and a half billion people, however, agriculture is a necessity. Agriculture wasn’t developed to allow more free time. Agriculture was developed to allow stability and predictability for large societies. Safer, but doesn’t allow so much free time. It’s a tradeoff. Agriculture is also the beginning of the history of man, too. Besides cave-paintings, there weren’t any histories before agriculture. So the very ability to pass on knowledge, study, and learn requires stability. You can’t migrate with a library on your back. It’s much more difficult to learn when the university is mobile.
Communism is currently the best happy-medium between workoholism and hunter/gathererism. If it worked.
Where’s the new comic, Ezzo?