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"There are many aspects of traditional life that we emphatically don't want to emulate, such as cycles of violence, frequent risk of starvation, and short lifespans resulting from infectious disease."

#JaredDiamond, ,quoted in a 2013 article by #BarbaraJKing;

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/01/14/169374400/why-does-jared-diamond-make-anthropologists-so-mad

Yes, we enlightened high-tech societies don't have any of these problems. Not ... exactly.

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"There are many aspects of traditional life that we emphatically don't want to emulate, such as cycles of violence, frequent risk of starvation, and short lifespans resulting from infectious disease."

#JaredDiamond, ,quoted in a 2013 article by #BarbaraJKing;

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/01/14/169374400/why-does-jared-diamond-make-anthropologists-so-mad

Yes, we enlightened high-tech societies don't have any of these problems. Not ... exactly.

(1/2)

"There are many aspects of traditional life that we emphatically don't want to emulate, such as cycles of violence, frequent risk of starvation, and short lifespans resulting from infectious disease."

#JaredDiamond, ,quoted in a 2013 article by #BarbaraJKing;

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/01/14/169374400/why-does-jared-diamond-make-anthropologists-so-mad

Yes, we enlightened high-tech societies don't have any of these problems. Not ... exactly.

(1/2)

"There are many aspects of traditional life that we emphatically don't want to emulate, such as cycles of violence, frequent risk of starvation, and short lifespans resulting from infectious disease."

#JaredDiamond, ,quoted in a 2013 article by #BarbaraJKing;

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/01/14/169374400/why-does-jared-diamond-make-anthropologists-so-mad

Yes, we enlightened high-tech societies don't have any of these problems. Not ... exactly.

(1/2)