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chickentribs · 09-26-2004, 01:22 PM

At the very least Phage - using your own measure of value, "survivability", the Piraha are running neck and neck with our culture being that they are still around (and getting press!). Who is to say which is better positioned to be functionally the same 100 years from now as a society? I am pretty confident that the Piraha don't have the enemies we do or, God forbid, the technology to blow all of our advancement clean off the planet.

I am no doomsayer - my only point is that if you must rank things as better or worse, it would help to know what their values system holds as important for frame of reference. And of course they still won't care.

09-26-2004, 01:22 PM	#20 (permalink)
chickentribs Addict Location: Mansion by day/Secret Lair by night	At the very least Phage - using your own measure of value, "survivability", the Piraha are running neck and neck with our culture being that they are still around (and getting press!). Who is to say which is better positioned to be functionally the same 100 years from now as a society? I am pretty confident that the Piraha don't have the enemies we do or, God forbid, the technology to blow all of our advancement clean off the planet. I am no doomsayer - my only point is that if you must rank things as better or worse, it would help to know what their values system holds as important for frame of reference. And of course they still won't care. __________________ Oft expectation fails... and most oft there Where most it promises - Shakespeare, W. Last edited by chickentribs; 09-26-2004 at 01:24 PM..