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* Their work week is short enough to make us drool in envy.
* They enjoy almost unbelievable egalitarianism
* The religious gasp at their high levels of sexual freedom, experimentation, and enjoyment.
* They're damn happy people, laughing freely way more than we do.
* Outside a division of labor, women have total social equality with men.
* They rarely resort to violence or war
* Strong social safety nets in most of their societies support the disabled, old, and in many cases, even the lazy.
* They usually live to be at least as old as we do
* Their health is more robust than ours, and they're frequently immune to diseases ravaging their sedentary neighbors.
* Their social lives are rich, and they have the free time to indulge themselves.
* With a few exceptions, their lifestyle lets them live in harmony with the earth, relying mostly on renewable resources, and keeping their numbers at a sustainable level.
* Their senses appear many times sharper than their own, and many seem curiously immune to extremes of temperature.
* Their strength often seems unbelievable.
* They intelligently use their time to create more productive environments that needs little care.
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Hunter Gatherers And The Golden Age Of Man
That article provides sources and information about all of these "wonders". Please read. "Wonders" for us the real savages. Most people say "but they were killing each other". No. Inside one tribe they were much more civilized than we are. And outside they had "war" but not like our wars.
People are not "naturally evil". Look around. Don't know about you but when I was little I thought all grown-ups are friends. Why wouldn't they be ? Remember how at age 5, 6, 7 every other kid of the same age you meet was a potential friend. And if you had the chance you would play with him as if you knew him since forever. That's how I remember. Tribal life - the life among a group of friends is in our nature.
I do not say "let's go back in time". Not possible. Just change our foolish organization. Keep our science and knowledge of stuff - nothing wrong with it in itself.
But we deny this tribal nature and internalize our masters :
The Machine in our Heads--Glenn Parton
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Almost universally, anthropologists remark on how ridiculously happy hunter gatherers seem to be. Laughter is far more common in their societies.
Of the !Kung: "Bursts of laughter accompany the conversations. Sometimes the !Kung laugh mildly with what we would call a sense of humor about people and events; often they shriek and howl as though laughter were an outlet for tension. They laugh at mishaps that happen to other people, like the lions eating up someone else's meat, and shriek over particularly telling and insulting sexual sallies...(15)".
Laurens van der Post expressed wonder at the exuberant San laugh, which rises "sheer from the stomach, a laugh you never hear among civilized people. (17)."
There's little wonder why. With no stressful work and plenty of time to socialize with friends and family, or engage in other pursuits they enjoy, what's not to be happy about?
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