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not sure if anyone remembers my rant about the Iceman?
Was he murdered by farmers, or hunter-gatherers? LOL There's a third option, maybe he was killed by warrior sorts.
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Folks don't think war is a sort, they think it's automatic and built into everyone. As though it didn't start less then ten thousand years ago, as though it's been three million years of war. As though you can just do that forever.
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EDIT TO ADD:
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Sorry, thinking out loud:
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I mean, the logic is so there: if there were a warrior caste nowadays, that’s what they would think, that war is the natural born way of the world, right?
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Your neurotype is the things you do not or cannot question, and the difference between knowing the world is war with your whole brain, and knowing that your brain just always wants to think that would be massive.
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Knowing that you have a brain and that it has tendencies, would be huge - like Kant’s idealism, he “showed,” that both time and space were properties of the mind, and not of the world, I think this is true of war too, in Kant’s syllogism, if you cannot imagine a world without space, then space is part of your imagination organ, same for same, if you cannot imagine a world without war, then war is a component of your imagination, a part of your brain, your neurotype.
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You may argue about time and space, but can you really argue that war would exist without us? 😠
Bah. Pithy, innit. Sorry.
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so now I've heard the one about Neanderthal birch tar antibiotics, and again, I love every time they have to realize that people from hundreds of thousands of years ago were fully realized people.
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Only one minor note:
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I know the accumulation of technologies surely takes time, but honestly, if I was already making and using tar glue for my sharp rock projects, I imagine the medical discovery would happen automatically, within my first year of the trade. You've got it on your hands, you're probably cutting yourself often enough, you'd get tar in some cuts and maybe not others . . .
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again, if I was already that far along
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@punishmenthurts did you see the orangutan that mashed up some plant and used it like a poultice to treat a wound?