Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Quality of Life for the Neanderthal
In the past I have stated my opinion that Neanderthal (for 400,000 years) , aboriginals, and other hunter/gatherer nomadic tribe had fully meaningful lives and felt a sense of purpose and that perhaps "civilization" with its evils and discontents is not to be more admired. Consider the Piranha tribe of the Brazilian rain forest. People just laughed at me and said "Oh, you mean 'the noble savage' " ... but those primitive peoples lived in harmony with the ecosystem and our technology will perhaps destroy us.
