Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (1987)
by djtriptych on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:00AM
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Counter counters:
- re variety of food: Americans are among the fattest people in history.
- re richer lives: reading and writing is for the literate. Not guaranteed by agriculture. I might argue that the creation of excess directly contributed to a treatment of education as a precious resource.
Culture and art are not dependent on and predate agriculture.
- re: mortality rate. We don’t die by falling from trees, but we’re also much worse at being in trees. Monkeys are pretty unlikely to die by falling out of a tree. We are worse at operating our own bodies in proportion to our reliance on modern medicine
- re variety of food: Americans are among the fattest people in history.
- re richer lives: reading and writing is for the literate. Not guaranteed by agriculture. I might argue that the creation of excess directly contributed to a treatment of education as a precious resource.
Culture and art are not dependent on and predate agriculture.
- re: mortality rate. We don’t die by falling from trees, but we’re also much worse at being in trees. Monkeys are pretty unlikely to die by falling out of a tree. We are worse at operating our own bodies in proportion to our reliance on modern medicine