Humanity 1.0: Our Birth
As far as we know, we emerged about 200,000 years ago. At this time we had no language, no clothing, no art, no religion. We lived in the wild and ate what we could forage or hunt. We were hard to distinguish from our closest cousins – the chimpanzees and bonobos.
What came to differentiate us from them – our remarkable capacity for innovation – was still only a faint trace at this time, a latent capacity. During the first hundred thousand years of our existence, we were confined to a small area in the hot, dry savanna of East Africa.
There . . . we roamed, sweat, and slept beneath the stars on hard ground. We lived like the animals that we are . . .
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Tim P
The implication of this series is that humanity is just another animal, which it isn't, and that we humans are not in our natural state and are a plague on the planet. I would challenge anyone buying into that narrative to shed your clothes, and your smart phones, and just walk into the wilderness, forage for greens, and see how you like it. See how long you last in your natural animal state earning a living by tooth and claw.
Anonymous
Humans are a blight on the planet. We are our own worst enemies. How do you explain war, torture, life style disease such as diabetes 2 and zombie like consumerism. Long live the anti-consumerism revolution and down with marketing and advertising nonsense.
Technology is a good thing use it if you must but remember don't be used.
Politicians are just like you and I they think they can control everyone but ultimately they will need your vote. Don't give your vote cheaply. Kick-back.
As far as survival without the trappings of consumerism or technology goes. You do what you have to do to survive. We are all still just animals beneath the ever thinning veneer of civilization.
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