Not all people are on the money system, drive cars. live in crime-ridden over-crowded cities, own guns, are scared to go out at night, work 60-80 hours per week, have 2.2 children, have numerous credit cards, are slaves to bank mortgages against their domestic shelter. Humans simply have not evolved genetically, physically or psychologically far from being hunters and gathers – millions of people still are. It stands to reason that 60,000 years may not be long enough for positive evolution to have modified us to live without ill the way we do.
Not long ago I went to a pedestrian community where money has no value, where people hunt game, fish and harvest fruits and vegetables from wild bushes. I came back to my sprawling city of 5 Million people and I took a hard look at our deteriorating, unhealthy society and my own sycophantic lifestyle.
To me it became clear: we went from hunting and gathering to herding and cultivation, right into market based city-states and into economic rationalised nationhoods, job protection, globalisation and world banks before our physiology and psychology had time to prepare us for such changes
Increasing incidents of crime, terror, mental illness, cancers, ulcers, anxieties, drug and alcohol dependency, obesity, anorexia as well as pollution and global warming are what we now accept as normal crosses to bear in contemporary societies.
Not long ago I went to a pedestrian community where money has no value, where people hunt game, fish and harvest fruits and vegetables from wild bushes. I came back to my sprawling city of 5 Million people and I took a hard look at our deteriorating, unhealthy society and my own sycophantic lifestyle.
To me it became clear: we went from hunting and gathering to herding and cultivation, right into market based city-states and into economic rationalised nationhoods, job protection, globalisation and world banks before our physiology and psychology had time to prepare us for such changes
Increasing incidents of crime, terror, mental illness, cancers, ulcers, anxieties, drug and alcohol dependency, obesity, anorexia as well as pollution and global warming are what we now accept as normal crosses to bear in contemporary societies.
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