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I just read this funny article about the relatively new Paleo movement, which is about modern people trying to lead a primitive caveman kind of life (to the extent possible today). Seems they despise the culture and sophistication humanity has developed over the past couple of thousand years, instead they like to crawl around naked in the woods, lift heavy stones and tree trunks, eat raw meat in great quantities etc.
I wonder what the ancient cavemen themselves would say about that, given they had pretty short lives and probably would have loved to have more comfortable lives
Primitive living has been around for as long as there have been people; it's nothing new. I did a lot of that in the 90's (but back then we were "mountain men"), although I never went "full time caveman". But I'm confident I could still be dropped naked anywhere in the Intermountain West and make it through all right.
In case anyone was wondering, Big Macs taste better than mormon crickets, but mormon crickets are better for you. And, your time is better spent learning how to flintknap rather than learning how to jump onto mastadons.
Anyway, I see nothing wrong with it, except the fact that if too many people do it all the caves will be taken up and you won't be able to collect enough bugs and small furry animals to eat.
People always romanticize the past when they are unhappy about the present. People usually use the reasoning that it is better in some unquantifiable, or very hard to explain, way that brings people to their perceived happiness.
Living a little while in actual conditions of that past usually is a good jolt.
I just read this funny article about the relatively new Paleo movement, which is about modern people trying to lead a primitive caveman kind of life (to the extent possible today). Seems they despise the culture and sophistication humanity has developed over the past couple of thousand years, instead they like to crawl around naked in the woods, lift heavy stones and tree trunks, eat raw meat in great quantities etc.
I wonder what the ancient cavemen themselves would say about that, given they had pretty short lives and probably would have loved to have more comfortable lives
Lives were shorter back then primarily because they had little when it came to medicine. Even in the past century there was a time when a simple cut or ear infection would be feared as deadly. No antibiotics, etc. No vaccines meant children died in large numbers.
I think the group in that article are rather soft, and on raw meat, quite wrong. Pre-historic man had fire. Cooking food makes it safer. It was common for salads in America in the Colonial days to be boiled to ensure they were safe (not a bad idea in light of recent issues with bacteria from raw food). That group is unwilling to give up modern comforts, they live in a city where to be a hunter-gatherer is all but illegal unless you drive long distances to the woods.
There are many people who prefer simpler lifestyles. Comes in varying degrees. I'm of that mindset, but not into the Stone Ages. Not crazy at all, and the world would be better off if more people were less materialistic and not into consumerism.
BTW: it has been found the diet of the Inuit was one of the healthiest diets there is. Full of meat and fish...
I just read this funny article about the relatively new Paleo movement, which is about modern people trying to lead a primitive caveman kind of life (to the extent possible today). Seems they despise the culture and sophistication humanity has developed over the past couple of thousand years, instead they like to crawl around naked in the woods, lift heavy stones and tree trunks, eat raw meat in great quantities etc.
I wonder what the ancient cavemen themselves would say about that, given they had pretty short lives and probably would have loved to have more comfortable lives
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Humans have developed rather quickly, in geologic and evolutionary terms. We are really the same animal today, that we were 20,000 years ago.
So we still have lots of instincts for living in the woods, and doing things that our ancestors used to do to live.
Its only natural for us to feel drawn to a simpler life, that we evolved for. Still, I like my TV, computer, internet, car, microwave, and countless other things that we have now. I like to get out in the woods and play though. I don't do it naked, but I do like the woods.
But modern humans have changed since the stone age. For instance, I wonder if those paleo guys drink milk. The capability to digest milk has started to spread only about 7000 years ago, it is based on a genetic mutation and mainly to be found in central and northern Europeans. Most adult people on this planet cannot drink milk, though.
Living in the woods with primitive tools. So easy, a caveman can do it.
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