And so what? They don't have to live in complete isolation and without any commodities of capitalist production for their modes of life to be inspiring.
Inspiring to what? And I’m simply saying that making claims on how happy pre-agricultural societies were based on studies of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies that live at the periferies of and trade with neighboring agricultural and industrial societies to a various extent is flawed
Which everyone knows, most of all anthropologists, and which nevertheless does not invalidate the argument, that there are aspects of the study of their lives that can inspire and inform us about other ways of life than the one we happen to have.
Because a RETVRN to small hunter-gatherer communities is not possible for 8 billion humans anyway, regardless whether that was „better” for our distant ancestors (which is based on some flimsy reasoning). We need to look forward for solutions, not backward.
Why are you assuming that that is the idea to return? I actually find it insulting that so many people here are attributing me an idea that is so stupid, and in spite of me having now stated multiple time sthat that is not what anyone is arguing.
Well you are the one here attributing love of neoliberal capitalism to those who are more sceptical about sweeping claims about pre-agricultural societies
So, to go back to some of the stuff we were talking about earlier, and I'm speaking from my own personal feelings here, some of the conversations, comments, and original thread have really felt "either you agree 100% or you're a loser freak who desires a modern day Rockefeller to step on you"
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