It was interesting to read about how society got started and how our furthest back ancestors survived. it seems that in todays times all are concerned about is how to move forward; it would do us some good to look at our history and see how everything was started in the first place. These were peoples who have little evidence of violence, my mind wonders towards all the places as to how, at such a time of primitive survival, they did not resort to violence when today people get shot over a pair of shoes on Black Friday. It leads me to my personal theory that when humans are kept busy they are more concerned with being busy than looking for trouble: humans are inherently good. There was no surplus of greed and obviously there was no material things to cling to or create outright jealousy.
I've always wondered, who would think to pull rice out of the ground …. and then to boil it? and wait…. then eat it?
same thing with marijuana… how did the person who discovered its medicinal properties discover it in the first place? If you eat the marijuana plant it does nothing for you… it has to be smoked. Maybe there was a fire and everyone got high? That would be funny now wouldn't' it? In the end the whole chapter had me really thinking about how society has evolved. It actually made me sad, we are so concerned about material things, if our black shirt fades we go buy a new one and throw the faded one out. We complain about the food in the caff.. how ungrateful. Our ancestors had to make a weapon, track down an animal or plant, kill or chop it down, prepare it and then eat whatever was left. And we have bags of chips and meat at the tips of our fingers and complain.
this chapter was eye opening.
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