Comments on: Headed downhill for 12,000 years? http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/01/01/headed-downhill-for-12000-years/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: JMB http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/01/01/headed-downhill-for-12000-years/#comment-302277 JMB Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:46:31 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/01/01/headed-downhill-for-12000-years/#comment-302277 The author forgot to mention that the life expectancy in his Utopian hunter-gatherer society was around 25 years, IF you made it past childhood. The author forgot to mention that the life expectancy in his Utopian hunter-gatherer society was around 25 years, IF you made it past childhood.

]]> By: Bob Hawkins http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/01/01/headed-downhill-for-12000-years/#comment-302268 Bob Hawkins Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:09:42 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/01/01/headed-downhill-for-12000-years/#comment-302268 Declaring the world wrong is transparently equivalent to admitting that your theory of the world is wrong but you can't face that. At least it allows you to avoid changing your theory or considering that someone else had been right. Like when communism went poof. When it turned out Marxism did not lead to more industrialization and consumer goods than capitalism, suddenly industrialization and consumer goods were global poison. Not the goal of social organization after all. Declaring the world wrong is transparently equivalent to admitting that your theory of the world is wrong but you can’t face that. At least it allows you to avoid changing your theory or considering that someone else had been right.

Like when communism went poof. When it turned out Marxism did not lead to more industrialization and consumer goods than capitalism, suddenly industrialization and consumer goods were global poison. Not the goal of social organization after all.

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