• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    “how we lived our entire history” is generally “as hunter-gatherers, who died when something went slightly wrong”.

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      6 months ago

      i mean sure they didn’t have modern medicine, but they were generally in way better health than we are now and still had basic plant medicine.

      washing off wounds and wrapping them in medicinal leaves does a lot, and there is archaeological evidence of individuals who were in extremely bad health and yet through care from their tribe they managed to survive for years in such a state.

      This idea that hunter-gatherers lived lives of misery and were too dumb to try to prevent bad things is unfortunately very widespread, when the reality is that hunter-gatherers had it about as good as you can expect from living without modern technology.

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    7 months ago

    If we’re going to be saddled with 19th century British customs they could at least have left in all the drugs.

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    “These are our ANCIENT TRADITIONS”

    Yeah sure they are buddy, people in this town were totally exploding fireworks 300 years ago at 4AM. Is being a drunkard your family tradition too?

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      One reason non-heteronormative sex is so demonized in countries that were formerly under British occupation is because of the influence of the British customs and laws.