with a man from borneo who was a hunter gatherer in the forest, who i believe has just died, but that man changed his life because of the contact with you. i mean, i understand that you were emailing with him not so long ago. not something that he would have done in his hunter gatherer culture. so, again, it seems he embraced change when your message to many of these peoples around the world is that we shouldn t change you, you should entirely retain the identity, character and culture you had before any contact. no, that s oversimplification. they should change at their own rate, change if you want to, or not if you don t want to. we had endless conversations a0 years ago, when i first met him, when he was a full hunter gatherer, and his family had never met an outsider before. and they lived this wonderful hunter gathering life, which is very sustainable, and how we all lived for the first few 100,000 years of our existence.
iso foot tree by himself, and cut the branch down that the honey was in. and, i mean, farfitter than anybody would be in the western world. in their own environment, given a chance to have their own land and their own culture, they re obviously healthier and better than we are and live longer. i mean, this myth of the tribal life being nasty, brutish and short is the result of us bringing diseases, to which they have no resistance, from the old world to the new. but can i come back to the potential contradictions? you were best friends with a man from borneo who was a hunter gatherer in the forest, who i believe has just died, but that man changed his life because of the contact with you. i mean, i understand that you were emailing with him not so long ago. not something that he would have done in his hunter gatherer culture. so, again, it seems he embraced change when your message to many of these peoples around the world is that we shouldn t change you, you should entirely retain the
and their own culture, they re obviously healthier and better than we are and live longer. i mean, this myth of the tribal life being nasty, brutish and short is the result of us bringing diseases, to which they have no resistance, from the old world to the new. but can i come back to the potential contradictions? you were best friends with a man from borneo who was a hunter gatherer in the forest, who i believe has just died, but that man changed his life because of the contact with you. i mean, i understand that you were emailing with him not so long ago. not something that he would have done in his hunter gatherer culture. so, again, it seems he embraced change when your message to many of these peoples around the world is that we shouldn t change you, you should entirely retain the identity,
that you were emailing with him not so long ago. not something that he would have done in his hunter gatherer culture. so, again, it seems he embraced change when your message to many of these peoples around the world is that we shouldn t change you, you should entirely retain the identity, character and culture you had before any contact. no, that s oversimplification. they should change at their own rate, change if you want to, or not if you don t want to. we had endless conversations a0 years ago, when i first met him, when he was a full hunter gatherer, and his family had never met an outsider before. and they lived this wonderful hunter gathering life, which is very sustainable, and how we all lived for the first few 100,000 years of our existence. and he and i discussed at length whether he should settle. huge pressure from the government to settle, opportunity for the children to go to school, opportunity to have medicines. we had a big expedition with doctors on it and nurses,
i mean, this myth of the tribal life being nasty, brutish and short is the result of us bringing diseases, to which they have no resistance, from the old world to the new. viktor 0rban but can i come back to the potential contradictions? you were best friends with a man from borneo who was a hunter gatherer in the forest, who i believe has just died, but that man changed his life because of the contact with you. i mean, i understand that you were emailing with him not so long ago. not something that he would have done in his hunter gatherer culture. so, again, it seems he embraced change when your message to many of these peoples around the world is that we shouldn t change you, you should entirely retain the identity, character and culture you had before any contact. no, that s oversimplification. they should change at their own