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To: artichokegrower

Quite right.

But what has historically happened to hunger-gatherers such as American Indians or Australian Aborigines when they are forced to settle, even with vastly more comfortable lives materially?

The lives led by those with no real role in society, whether in an American ghetto, on an Indian reservation in USA or Canada, or in a British slum, are not attractive.

People have historically gotten much if not all of their sense of purpose from filling an economic need, their job, if you will. A Comanche on the reservation today has a great deal more and better “stuff” than his ancestors did when they were Lords of the Plains. But he’ll often be the first to agree his life has a lot less purpose,

My prediction is that for more and more people there will BE no economic need they are capable of filling. How do these people find meaning or purpose in their lives? History is not encouraging in this regard.


52 posted on 03/22/2015 10:17:38 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Hunter-gatherers, not hunger-gatherers. Though, come to think of it...


55 posted on 03/22/2015 10:19:53 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
A Comanche on the reservation today has a great deal more and better “stuff” than his ancestors did when they were Lords of the Plains. But he’ll often be the first to agree his life has a lot less purpose
But thanks to the technology that conquered his stone age world if he gets appendicitis surgery is an option rather than an assured slow agonizing death. Anyhow the Native Americans in my area are finding purpose in life with their casino derived millions.
67 posted on 03/22/2015 10:41:02 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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