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They were just as smart as we would be if we didnt watch television, and they lived in cozy hand made shelters, were generally peaceful and egalitarian, and had long healthy lives in which food was plentiful because they kept their populations well below the carrying capacity of their landbase. Then someone invented civilization, in which we monopolized the land and grew our population by eating grain. Grain is high in calories but low in other nutrients, so we got sick, and we also began starving when the population outgrew the landbase, so the farmers conquered land from neighboring foragers and enslaved them to cut down more forests and grow more grain, and to build sterile monuments while the elite developed technologies of repression and disconnection and gluttonous consumption, and everywhere life was replaced with control. Its been getting worse and worse, and soon we will abandon it and live the way we did before. 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Here are European explorers writing that certain tribes showed no trace of violence or meanness. But this strength is also a weakness, because reality cuts both ways. As soon as you say, We should live like these actual people, every competing ideologue will jump up with examples of those people living dreadfully Heres a tribe with murderous warfare, and one with ritual abuse, and one with chronic disease from malnutrition, and one where people are just mean and unhappy, and here are a bunch of species extinctions right when primitive humans appeared. Most primitivists accept this evidence, and have worked out several ways to deal with it. One move is to postulate something that has not been observed, but if it were, would make the facts fit your theory. Specifically, they say The nasty tribes must have all been corrupted by exposure to civilization. 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