RE: The mistake of agriculture

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 22:20:45 MDT

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    Lee Corbin wrote:

    > The "paradise" of living a hunter-gatherer
    > existence...

    No one is suggesting that anyone believes HG'ers lived in "paradise."

    >, which, Jared Diamond not withstanding, could also
    > often be brutish and short, wouldn't be for *me*, even
    > assuming that "I" somehow could be other than the product of
    > a 20th century civilization (as, I would definitely say, all of us
    > are).

    Sorry but you cannot know what would "be for you" if you really lived in
    40,000 BC. You don't live in 40,000 BC.

    I'm reminded of the old truth that "money does not buy happiness." One might
    substitute any of the trappings of modern post-agricultural-revolution life
    for "money" in that truism.

    Of course it takes some imagination do so, along with a willingness to see
    past one's own cultural and philosophical biases.

    -gts

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