That's well written (you're a excellent and prolific writer!)
Thank you
You should read the bestseller "Sex at Dawn"
I'll definitely consider it. I've heard lots about this book over the years, and I will probably read it one day. I just have so much other stuff to read right now. I can't say when I will find the time to read it.
but here you're saying that the neolithic, civilized and modern way of life with private property is the supreme way and that the tribal paleolithic way of life was bad!
It's the best today. Back then, it wasn't. And so I fully agree that the neolithic, civilized, private property, family oriented and monogamous way of life is NOT natural. That is, it's not the way of life that we evolved in. But it is ideal for the economic situation we've been in for the past 10k or so years, since the development of farming/herding. I fully agree that our instincts will often tell us to revert to our natural ways, the ways our ancestors evolved in. And those are tribal communism with an emphasis on public property rather than private, duty rather than freedom, gossip rather than privacy, promiscuity and polygamy rather than monogamy, tribal communal raising of kids rather than families doing it. I can go into more detail about why those things are ideal today if you're interested.
Our ancestors evolved in this way because that was ideal for the economic situation they were in for most of our evolution. When you can only extract from the land those resources which it naturally produces, and you can't increase their production in any significant way, then the situation is such that it's best to form groups (tribes) that share responsibilities and resources, while they keep others away. In this economic situation, the ideal becomes Marx's motto: From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. Within reason, of course. Unproductive or non-cooperative members would simply be killed, for the good of the tribe. Likewise, neighboring tribes would be seen as mortal enemies, for any extraction of resources by them meant less resources available for you and your tribe.
And this sets the stage for much of the horrors of tribal life. Or, what we today think of as horrors, but back then, they were everyday life and a good thing. Cannibalism, rape, torture, mutilation, murder and war were all a part of everyday life, and highly valued among tribe members, especially the leaders and the wise ones. And these horrors were in a majority of cases aimed towards children, and for good reasons too.
PC anthropologists have spread this false notion of the "noble savage". In truth, there was no such thing. And we don't even need much research to know this. Simple economic, biological and psychological/sociological theory is enough to figure out that all of these horrors were not just happening, but that they must have been happening, because the socioeconomic situation was such that all these things which today would be "bads", were "goods" back then, when properly applied. I can go into more detail about why those things were ideal back then if you're interested.
The problem with the neolithic era, is that we threw the baby out with the bathwater, sort of speak. We realized how our lives could be made much better by the transition to farming and herding rather than hunting and gathering, private property rather than public property, freedom rather than duty, peace and trade and care rather than war and torture, monogamy and lifelong marriage and family unions rather than polygamy and promiscuity and tribal unions, and privacy rather than gossip. We, particularly in western cultures, called this being purified from our brutish and savage ways of the past, the original sin. The baby that we threw out with the bathwater is the old savage diet of raw, unprocessed foods, in particular meats (and by meats I mean all edible parts of the animals, including the blood, fat, marrow, connective tissue and organs). We were convinced by a notion (possibly put forth by the elite ruling class wanting to make everybody else weak and dependent), that just as our souls had to be purified by repenting and avoiding sins, so our meats had to be purified by fire before they were safe to eat. But fire doesn't purify, it only destroys. And so we were convinced that our new lives that were mostly free of sin had to also be free of the gory raw meats that the savages used to eat. But our biology hasn't changed. What made them biologically healthy are the same things that make us biologically healhy. And what made them biologically unhealthy, also makes us biologically unhealthy. This is the pinnacle of the paleo diet. We want to eat like paleolithic hunter-gatherers, because that's the diet our bodies evolved eating. We don't want to live with their cultures and societies, because, while that was the lifestyle our bodies evolved to want and excel at, it's also a lifestyle that is no longer ideal, in fact it's the strict opposite of ideal. And because we're the smartest animal on the planet, we realized how we could change our ways to improve our lives. We made mistakes along the way, and the transition is not full yet. Indeed, there are plenty periods (like the present) where the society has a throwback to our more savage ways of the past, which our genes thirst for. But like the christians say, our body yearns for sin, and we must learn to deal with it, and continously say no. That is, if we want to reach heaven, which is a state of total bliss and harmony. The allegory is more than just supernatural. If and when humanity learns to let go of our savage ways, and learns to finally and completely accept the ideal form of social interaction for the new post-agricultural era that we've been in over the past 10k years or so, we'll be in heaven.
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