So I am not so dense that I have completely written off the fact that there have been times and places where the people lived happily and into prosperous old age on farm fresh cooked foods. I have seen the remnant's of such a neolithic Eden in Northern California ,Perhaps its only gone with the wind nostalgia but I talked to people who lived from before the second world war.
There were farms out that way where the children were taught collage level material at grade school age. These one room schools were so much better for educating the young than anything else we have today. A school marm would be put up by the comunity and her sole mission would be to educate the children to the best of their abilities, this gave her the freedom to allow the bright and gifted to study anything at any grade level as soon as they were ready. The state government eventually went in and shut down these schools, even though some of the brightest minds were being produced in the old methods.
These people drank a lot of raw milk and ate cooked meats, everything was organic and fresh. They didn't seem to be affected by the damage of cooked foods . These people ate cooked foods but since everything was so clean and pure it didn't harm them because they had pristine alimentary conditions. They knew how to balance themselves. The kids would gather dandelions for the 90 something year old Granny to make wine with. The cows were hand milked every morning. They had some type of powdered flower that they spread around the garden to repell bugs.
They practised the most wise forms of folk medicine. This man I talked to was born premature and barely 4 pounds and was sure to die. His grandmother put him in a goose egg incubator and feeds him with a dropper for weeks day and night and he lives. A country Doctor feeds anemic children a remedy of raw lungs and heart. They build their own sweat lodges and will sweat out in the wintertime. They use smoke house to prepare a good amount of their meats.
Its not heaven but when teddy Roosevelt took his tour of northern California at the turn of last century he saw a place he compaired to ancient Athens. So what the F happened and why cant we live as they did. It seems that nothing last and the progressives destroyed those farmland communities that existed throughout that part of the world. Once the kids were taken away from the Old culture and away from the untainted food, Within one generation the whole thing evaporated. The reason that it worked is because the way the generations rely upon each other ,the young worked and the old did all the odd chores while teaching the children the old traditions in the process. Once factory farms came into power then the jobs that the old and young did were gone and so the Old generation went out to pasture and the young were put into kennels(classrooms) This is to force class upon us. They teach us class alright. What is offered in classrooms is as poisonous to our spirit as the cafeteria food is to our guts. I digress.
My Idea is that neolithic Edens existed, but you have to recognize it for what it is. There was life,love, hate , death, ignorance, and even in the best of the communities there were some sons of bastards. They had very admirable traits, and had their flaws. What is important and primary to my interest is that they had a better quality of life, they had health and a better capacity to enjoy the precious gift of life and were not subject to the pollution that we must now endure. Is there a way back to that world ? or is it gone forever and just figment of a poor imagination?
I guess I will have to find my own Eden or die trying.
