>>212812188
Lord, how your tribal ancestors would hate you if they ever met you after their hard lives of foraging, hunting, and getting poisoned by everything and warding off infection and parasites
>>212812145 (OP)
Nah, I'm glad to have been born when and where I am. I don't want to struggle every day doing hard labor just to scrape enough calories together to live one more day.
>>212812229
life really wasn't that hard in the past, making it past childhood was difficult, sure, but once you were into adulthood it was mostly easy cruising into old age.
>>212812436
yeah it was, even fucking northen euro cavemen were making it well into their 60s >>but muh five hours a day
what are you talking about you deranged BASTARD, you FOOL.
>>212812586
anon, it's pointless to argue about this. I've tried in the past, but people are still stuck in the Hobbesian idea that life before agriculture was "nasty brutish and short".
>>212812622 >They also got rid of their elderly by pitching them off cliffs because early crop management was sketchy and failures were frequent
He was clearly talking about pre-agricultural life
>>212813047
I've always been fascinated by the Pre-Columbian Americas, and Peru has the New World's oldest monuments. The Inca were an amazing civilisation too, of course.