...hunter-gatherers considered their
environments to be eternally provident, and only ever worked to meet
their immediate needs. They never sought to create surpluses nor
over-exploited any key resources.
If in
“civilization” you “choose” to partake,
you have to
acknowledge it's been a mistake.
Our hunter-gatherer forebears
cared for themselves (AND theirs!)
with minimum
bother and much less fuss
than day-to-day
living requires of us.
They ate what they
found as they wandered.
They did not save. They did not squander.
They lived off the
land with what came to hand
and as a whole the
whole thing was grand.
Then an evil
need planted a seed
which led to
farming which led to greed
which led weapons
which led to war
which led to us
AND all we are good for:
exploiting,
killing, breeding, diseases,
destroying
whatever, whenever it pleases.
If ancestors
from 10,000 years past
could visit today, they'd be aghast.
They'd return to their time, uproot their crops
to try ensure development stops.
They'd go on a
hunt, they'd eat a weed,
they'd pray that the wheel doesn't succeed.
To suppress their distress, they'd end “progress”
leaving us better off for it. (I guess.)
[updated/corrected: December 7, 2017, 11:56 am EST]
[updated/corrected: December 7, 2017, 11:56 am EST]