CLP - Vanity Card #392
From what little I know of prehistory, man roamed the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years in small tribes -- probably no more than two hundred people per group. During this time all wisdom was passed along according to the oral tradition. Everything you needed to know in order to succeed as a human being was told and/or shown to you, whether it be how to find a girl, find a guy, have sex, have a baby, find food, raise children, deal with family, argue with neighbors, care for the sick, elderly and dead, fight, work, sing, dance, play and get really loaded in order to hookup with the universe. (Side note: I've always loved the term "prehistory," which arrogantly implies that prior to the emergence of our culture, nothing happened.) Anyway, this state of affairs lasted for a long, long time. It was relatively stable. Peace on Earth, if you will. Then, with the advent of large-scale agriculture and the need for ever larger swathes of land to accommodate it, the tribal system collapsed and people began to live huddled together in towns, villages and cities. In short order, the priceless wisdom that taught us who we were and how we could live a happy life was forever lost to mankind. Which brings us to today. I don't believe that we became a neurotic and self-destructive species because we're born in sin, or otherwise flawed. I believe our fall from grace was simply a forgetting...CLP - Vanity Card #239
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Side note: I've always loved the term "prehistory," which arrogantly implies that prior to the emergence of our culture, nothing happened.
Not really. It just refers to the absence of writing. The real gotcha is the assumption that history is more than mere fiction with foot notes. The Egyptians and the Chinese both freely altered "history" to meet the demands of the ruling dynasty.
As concerns hunter-gatherers, some were mobile bands, others, where the local biology was highly productive were not. Modern humanity (H. sapiens sapiens) has been a global species for less than 100,000 years. In Africa our specific species may have a span of double that.
The fact is, besides being nice to each other, caring for each other, and tending the sick, they also lied, fought, took heads, ate each other and were just as generally objectionable as the neighbors often are. An early homicide in L.A. took place over 9,000 years ago when a woman was murdered with ground stone tool, and the body and weapon disposed of in the la Brea tar pits. Could be straight out of a Raymond Chandler novel.
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