Damn, I meant, + 1 for what *David Parsons* said. Sheesh! Apparently, attention to detail has been evolved out of my constitution.
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 to what Lee said. > > Just to add a very general comment on human ways of living: My own > practical principle is that, if people ate, sat, worked, believed, fought, > loved, raised children, and so forth in certain ways for milennia, then > there's a very good chance that these modes are natural and allow humans to > thrive, at least to a good extent. To believe in this principle means to > rigorously jettison much of what popularized science "tells" us about our > pre-historic and even pre-modern ancestors, but that's not intellectually > or emotionally hard at all, frankly, so much of popularized science being > in the cruel term "Just So Stories." > > I also believe that some ancient ways are probably healthier in certain > ways than other ancient ways; you never can have it all. But I recall an > old Time Life book on Health that I bought 25 years ago from Goodwill; > there was a section comparing and contrasting foreign and US, and ancient > and modern, ways of living. The authors showed a photo of an 80-year-old > African villager striding along smoking a pipe; she was slender and erect > and, from the photo, vigorous. The authors said that rural peoples, > nomadic, pastoral, or agricultural, generally lived fully long and, what's > more, healthy lives, as long as they avoided serious injury. > > OTOH, an particularly eloquent, and sad, comment by Kunstler from last > week (I don't by any means buy into all that Kunstler promotes; just take > this text on its own merits: > > "....life in the United States has become unspeakably depressing, empty, > and purposeless for a large class of citizens. > > .... You can read it in the bodies of the people in the new town square, > i.e. the supermarket: people prematurely old, fattened and sickened by bad > food made to look and taste irresistible to con those sunk in despair, a > deadly consolation for lives otherwise filled by empty hours, trash > television, addictive computer games, and their own family melodramas > concocted to give some narrative meaning to lives otherwise bereft of event > or effort." > > Now I believe that many of these prematurely worn out "deplorables", sad > sacks that they are, are humanly better than many of the "elite" -- and > what a fucked up term that is! I mean, just because someone is rich and > polished doesn't mean he's not a shit. "[M]eet it is I set it down,That one > may smile, and smile, and be a villain." > > So millennia of Inuit and Masai have thrived on protein and fat, while > millennia of Japanese and Filipinos have thrived on white rice. And > millennia of Tibetans have thrived living on rugs, while millennia of > Mediterraneans have thrived sitting in chairs. There's no one sole recipe. > > Which reminds me of 2 very touching stories, both biographical or based on > biography: first, "L'enfant Noir" by Camara Laye, written in homesickness > as he studied mechanics of some sort in the 1950s, and describing his > traditional upbringing -- his father came from the metallurgist caste -- in > what is now Guinea. > > The other is a book I found in the Gallup Public Library and haven't seen > since, by a rural West African who became fascinated by the Inuit a boy and > left his country as a young man to travel to, and live among, the Inuit of > Greenland, being adopted by them as one of themselves. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_African_in_Greenland > > Now there's a study in the vast range of human possibilities! > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Orc <grr.grr....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 2:16:45 PM UTC-7, Lee Legrand wrote: >>> >>> Well, there is a alot of stuff on the internet about living simple and >>> getting back into natural predisposition in terms of food, clothing and >>> health. Like the Paleo diet or barefoot shoes, or sitting on the floor >>> instead of chairs and natural clothing. You must have seen stuff like this >>> on the web and similar >>> >> >> There's a lot of stuff like this on the web, yes, but with citations that >> pass the laugh test? Not so much. >> >> Humans are a pretty adaptable species; we're also pretty good at >> convincing ourselves that the way we live right now is the way humans were >> designed to live. I do most of my brazing & wheelbuilding whilst sitting >> on the floor, but I'm not sure what benefit I get from doing that aside >> from being motivated to sweep the floor more often. >> >> -- *30% Supply and Demand discount, listmembers only, on all resume, LinkedIn, and writing services, until Demand equals Supply! And there's more! 10% kickback for any referral resulting in fully paid, list-price contract. And still more! 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