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Re:A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the ... by ThalesX on Saturday May 25, 2024 @12:51PM (#40476208)
It's hard to assess, especially from our position, which set of challenges the human soul prefers. But there's an interesting point to be made, touched in both "Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress"[0] as well as "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity"[1] that no 'savage' has been interested in non-coercively joining an 'advanced' society, whereas there are plenty of examples of 'civilized' people choosing the 'savage' life. I don't think the choice is as clear cut as it would superficially seem.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Civilized-Death-What-Lost-Modernity/d... [1] https://www.amazon.com/-/en/David-Graeber/dp/0374157359

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Re:A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the ... by throwthrowuknow on Saturday May 25, 2024 @05:46PM (#40478117)
As is plainly evident, the vast majority of savages have chosen to incrementally create and join civilized societies. It’s a much larger challenge for an illiterate hunter gatherer to make a multi millennia jump into modern society than it is for someone to do the reverse.
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Re:A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the ... by ThalesX on Saturday May 25, 2024 @06:19PM (#40478257)
This says nothing about their level of wellbeing.

> As is plainly evident, the vast majority of savages have chosen to incrementally create and join civilized societies.

Have they chosen? Or were they civilized?

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