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Toilet plunger and the George Foreman grill.
Tis. And civilization was our downfall.
Without pointy sticks and rocks some people wouldn't be killed. Imagine if gunpowder/explosives didn't exist.Without pointy sticks and rocks we wouldn't be here today.
Yes they would, but they'd have died of leopard-related injuries.Without pointy sticks and rocks some people wouldn't be killed.
Theres no going back. We were evicted from the Garden of Eden and we cant go back.???????? oh yeah----let's go back to the hunter-gatherer life...........
Nor have you. Point?Says the guy who has never lived but in a civilization.
Written word is definitely way up there on the list, throwing in the printing press to combine with it makes it even more on point.So, not written word?
Seems like without written word, nothing we know today would exist.
Reading Professor Theodore Kaczynski's work?Theres no going back. We were evicted from the Garden of Eden and we cant go back.
Listen. Humanity was never meant for civilization. That ought to be obvious to anyone who looks objectively at the world today. Civilization is just a word we tag onto a greatly diminished version of ourselves where we bicker, squabble and kill over the things civilization has bestowed on us. We were stronger, surer, more able before we were civilized. Civilization has weakened us and made us into lackeys, minions and useful idiots.
We were who we should be when we were hunting and gathering. Now we're all employees.
But hey, now we have toilet paper.
Nah. Lets stay in the good new days when our hours are spent in pursuits whose only point is making someone else richer then they are now.Let's go back to the good old days, when a ruptured appendix was the end.
Never heard of him.Reading Professor Theodore Kaczynski's work?
He was really serious about havin' a good time.Never heard of him.
Theres no going back. We were evicted from the Garden of Eden ...
Ah.He was really serious about havin' a good time.
See, this is because you live in a civilized nation.Ah.
Serious and good time sound kind of mutually exclusive to me but I can see how others might get serious about it.
Every culture has a creation myth. The one in Genesis is one of the best.With respect.
Religious beliefs?
What makes us different from the monkeys is the apposable thumbs and a larger brain. I agree with mathematics. I think almost everything we do is based on mathematics including even things like our music.I agree with you. I would also go one step further. The spoken language, written language, and mathematics. Without those three things civilization as we have today for us hairless monkeys would not exist.
???? The Hunter-Gatherer life was no "Garden Of Eden", get real....Theres no going back. We were evicted from the Garden of Eden and we cant go back.
Listen. Humanity was never meant for civilization. That ought to be obvious to anyone who looks objectively at the world today. Civilization is just a word we tag onto a greatly diminished version of ourselves where we bicker, squabble and kill over the things civilization has bestowed on us. We were stronger, surer, more able before we were civilized. Civilization has weakened us and made us into lackeys, minions and useful idiots.
We were who we should be when we were hunting and gathering. Now we're all employees.
But hey, now we have toilet paper.
I was gonna say the sandwich.With respect:
I'm listening to a Bill McKibben speech and interview. He said that in the future humanity will realize that humans' two greatest inventions were:
1. Solar panels.
2. Noviolent civil disobedience.
I agree.
Fiction was a powerful invention.With respect:
Religious beliefs?
You've been reading Genesis again, haven't you?Mankind was doomed the day we started farming.
Agriculture made two things possible- we could live crowded together in cities and we could create a surplus. All of our problems come from two questions- who will rule the city and who will control the surplus?
Exactly. Thats what the Garden of Eden was, mankind as hunter-gatherers.
Fight Club too?We were stronger, surer, more able before we were civilized. Civilization has weakened us and made us into lackeys, minions and useful idiots.
We were who we should be when we were hunting and gathering. Now we're all employees.
But hey, now we have toilet paper.