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“People everywhere have divided themselves into men and women..."
Originally posted by CardiacCoug
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Here is another thing about the book: Harari went on and on and on about how the forager (hunter/gatherer) period was like a garden of eden. Humans were happy, healthy, and balanced with the environment. Life was a big happy adventure. But he also stated that one feature of forager societies is that they routinely kill babies, children, old people, ill people, or anyone who is going to slow down the group. Infanticide and murder are just a part of life necessary for the tribe to survive. He argues that the advent of agriculture was bad because people lived boring lives and didn't get a balanced diet. But it also caused a population explosion because they no longer had to routinely murder family members. This idolization of forager life is made more baffling by his insistence that killing animals for food is evil.
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