Should we go back to a hunter-gatherer type lifestyle?

Question

Or something similar that allows for some technology? (Like computer centers storing everything we've learned during our "civilized" time, so no information is lost?) I've been thinking about it a lot lately. Pros and cons? Is it even possible? Not in the next ten years definitely, but drawn across a few hundred years maybe? And not with the current population...hmm.

Answer 1

I'm quite sure when this generation of "leaders" gets done with us, we'll definitely be back to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. No doubts.  They're already pushing the middle class working man/woman to the brink of extinction.

Answer 2

yes i think we should, because it was a very good way to live, and it will also teach people to respect the environment around them, instead of destroying it, but overall i think it would be a really good way to live again.

Answer 3

I hunt regularly, does that count?

Answer 4

Umm no. I rather enjoy not living like it's the year 2,000,000 B.C.E There's a reason we evolved.

Answer 5

Try it for awhile. Go into the woods with no clothes on. No food. No matches. No phone. No meds. Live there for one year. Mostly, the fleas that eat huge holes into your flesh are what makes most people more realistically "appreciate" technology. There's a bunch of people who do this in the Rockies. Mostly, the girls just get passed around for s*x all day, just like it was in the "natural" times. Chronic, untreated skin infections like impetigo scar their faces with deep pits. Their hair falls out from lack of proper nutrition and their intestinal worms are a nightmare. The BIG problem are how many babies die and go "unreported". They get really hungry in the winter. I found a human thumb, what was probably left of someone's "natural" dinner one day in a river near one of these hunter-gatherer enclaves. Last I heard, they were looking for fresh women.

Not willing to give up your medicine and clothing, huh? LOL

Where exactly would you draw the line, of what you cheat on, that is, to take on your "camping trip" into the big bad wilderness? ANYTHING that you take with you, including your KNOWLEDGE of how to sew or avoid sunburn, etc. are the product of accumulated exploration, experimentation, learning and application of what we have learned (technology). To arbitrarily choose only certain components of  Human Compendium that can or cannot be allowed is impossible and would be foolish.  And, the imposition of one's set of sensibilities onto others is called fascism.  When people voluntarily chose to live amongst each in these backward ways, like the Amish, it only works as long as someone less "pure and cleansed" is guarding them from harm from the realities of a more dangerous world. Without the federal law and order and national security provided by the U.S. taxpayer, the Amish would be preyed upon. I'll keep my bifocals and books, thank you. Oh, and by the way.  When you go on your Earth Muffin adventure, can I have your computer?

Answer 6

I think we will get back to primitive living soon enough.  When that idiot in the White house bombs Iran and sets the dogs of h**l loose on the world, the nuclear war that follows won't leave much of a civilization left and the survivors will be living in pit houses and caves.

Answer 7

we may end up doing that but it will be called looting and murder

what if there is nothing to hunt or gather

better alternatives is Permaculture

Permaculture is a world recognised earth friendly movement but tends to include people that practice the concept and is active in all fields

Permaculture means permanent agriculture

a concept put forward by Bill Mollisson in the 60`s

which is a complete hand book for environmental design.

the Permaculture designers manual by Bill Mollison,which cost about 40 dollars.

and is the best all round book you can get.(tagiari publishing, [e-mail])

some other writers that are on the internet are

david Holmgren

Larry Santoyo

Kirk Hanson

Masanobu Fukuaka has written ,

One-Straw Revolution

The Road Back to Nature

The Natural Way of Farming

http://www.context.org/iclib/ic14/fukuok...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/masanobu_fu...

Simon Henderson

and Bill Molisson.

a representitive of the concept in USA is

Dan Hemenway at [e-mail]

[e-mail]

http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames....

http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalo...

Answer 8

The hunter-gatherer lifestyle would not work for the world, but a computer to store everything we have learned would be cool, but not possible.  First off, how would you collect everything that we have learned, IT WOULD BE TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!  But, if you could somehow find a way to collect all the info and put into into a computer...a lot of computers, tell me.  (Not kidding!)

P.S.  This doesn't mean I don't think it's a good idea.  It's genius.  In fact we could name the computer(s) after you.  Also, your idea could be put into the computer...what irony!!!

Answer 9

It couldn't work with technology, it'd be hard enough not to have someone trying to control and regulate the hunting/gathering as it is.  I think we've become too corrupt to be able to make something like that work again, the idea would have to begin as a commune of like-minded (and sincere) individuals and they would then have to overthrow all governments, terminate or assimilate those that threaten the new system and then be confident enough to let go of their power and allow society to function as it should in a hunter/gatherer society.