Showing posts with label hunter-gathers. Show all posts
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Thursday, 7 April 2016

Modern Life

Just read the following article:

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

Modern life can be a perpetual debilitating state of anxiety. Hunter-gatherers and the "stress" they deal with is of a different nature to the stress that we often feel.  Any "stress" hunter-gathers felt would presumably have been short lived.  Escaping from a predator might have short term stress, but then there's the thrill of escaping from such a predator, relying upon others to save your life, and you saving other peoples' lives in your turn. It's living life in the raw and all the thrill that entails.

Marilyn vos Savant

I read this very interesting article on Marilyn vos Savant who, at least at one point, held the world's highest recorded IQ. The articl...