Anxiety-Fear-Depression and the Civilized Mind

[Goshawk]

But please explain the Inuit tribes take on being invaded. The north has less easy material wealth to steal. Yet we do not see Inuit tribes sticking to subsistence living. They traded trapped furs for guns. Land access for easy new houses.

Maybe Inuit is a rare case though. Definitely see how all comfortable living areas had the local natives exterminated. By and large.

 

[buckwilk]

Well that's a theory that's easy to test. Since European Imperialism and exploration began in the 1600s we've discovered thousands of hunter gatherer societies that were living essentially like they did 30,000 years ago. 

How many of those peoples willingly and gladly traded their old miserable lives for the new, better way of civilization?  I don't believe any of them did.

How many did we have to kill and slaughter to get them to even have anything to do with us? As far as I know all of them.

After we forced them to adopt our wonderful way of life, how did they fare?  Almost universally their lives were destroyed and they've never recovered.

Tell us all about the hunter-gatherers who gladly and willing embraced the joys of civilization in the last 500 years. As I type this they are still hunting them down in the Amazon to force them off their land so they can slash and burn it.
Bob

Darwin and others addressed this in depth. The idea of survival of the fittest is an accepted idea in that community. Societies have come and gone for thousands of years. The thought that one is better than others can always be debated by the ones who survive the clash of societies. This is an interesting take on evolution https://jameswolman.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/has-mankind-graduated-from-evolution/

 

[Canine]

OK.I'll go back if I have to.But,I'm taking my recliner,my big screen tv,my internet,etc.