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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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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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ANOTHER EDIT TO ADD: I never finished Kant’s book and I hear his conclusions were what, status quo in the end, so maybe he wasn’t right about the world, but that syllogism is a key to neurodiversity, if something is everywhere you look, it’s in your eye, and the “fact,” that you see it everywhere doesn’t prove it’s anyfuckingwhere, right? 💜
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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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onto one called, "Monte Verde's dates are wrong. Maybe." and I'm scared, I think it is going to make me angry, I have a nasty feeling we're going to to the wrong side of things, that they're going to make something newer rather than older. Grrrrr.
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OK, 2/3 of the way through, first we heard about the Clovis idea, then the Monte Verde site looked a little older (and is far to the south as well), and the news is someone is indeed cutting that 14,000 year age in half and the idea and tech they used to do it . . . the last third is to be about the pushback against the new dates and the ensuing battle.
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I don't wish to get too caught up in one site, there are many, many sites in the Americas that are older than Clovis and some far, far older.
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I'll just say, the first objection comes to mind is first the new crew says the site is above a known ash layer that is only from eleven thousand years back - but then they say the creek redistributes new and old matter all the time, so at the very least these two ideas do not support each other.
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OK, back to it. 💜
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EDIT TO ADD: actually, I may save that for tomorrow, switch to hockey. Happy to save something to think about tomorrow, happy to have a diversion in the bank. Take care, y'all. 💜
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Alright, I finished the episode, and as predicted, I'm pissed. Again, controversy over one now long gone site does NOT "throw the whole coastal migration theory into question."
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There are other sites, older sites - and why is anyone obliged to prove ancient canoe journeys, what's so hard to believe? The only reason anyone wants to make this argument about Clovis is the bloody Terra Nullius doctrine, otherwise, what's the bloody problem?
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onto the latest episode now, about the handaxes made of fossils, have you seen that pic of one? So, cool. 💜
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Mostly not my interest here, but they have an ancient spherical carved geode, I assume that means unopened - and wow, what a great idea, if you know what a geode is and have one like that, a dull, round stone - but full of jewels no living entity has ever laid eyes on, what a metaphor.
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I’m a geode, goddammit. 😠💜💜
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all caught up. I hope Dr Sapolsky has something interesting tomorrow. 💜