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Shammi-•

A bit too much romanticism, but overall you are right,

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pherloOPinvoluntary simplicity•

Thanks, I agree I'm too romantic in general.

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gloggyAlso sprach Zarathustra•

I notice how you're right at the bottom. Even the people that read your well-argued post would rather pretend they haven't seen it. Tilting against windmills, but still, very good argument.

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apestate•

The Sahara was not an Amazon style rain forest. I've never seen any suggestion of that.

"The climate change at [10,500 years ago] which turned most of the [3.8 million square mile] large Sahara into a savannah-type environment happened within a few hundred years only, certainly within less than 500 years," http://m.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populated.htm

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pherloOPinvoluntary simplicity•

I'm sure you're right. Grasslands are the typical precursor to desert. I had it in my head that there were huge logs discovered in the sand, but I don't recall where I saw that.

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Fuckmeholdtight•

These dillusional Steven Pinker groupies know fuck all. Really, they have no fucking clue.

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jollyhideoutbananacéline dion sings love songs while our cities burn•

This is interesting, thanks.

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Collapseologist•

Great analysis!

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Memetic1•

Uhm many crimes were never reported first off. Also keep in mind that until very recently there were whole classes of individuals who could be brutalized with no legal recource. Is the world perfect of cource not. I feel there are two existential threats to our existence looming that is climate change, and antibiotic resistance. As for the whole people were better before ubiquitous computing. You may be right but there is no putting the gene back in that bottle. My recomendation is to focus more on how to make things work better in terms of interaction, and less on this whole semi ludite thing you got going on.

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