Jay Hanson wrote:
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> >Tor Førde:
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> >But about 10.000 years ago a catastrophe happened: agriculture was
> >developed. And from then on began humans to suffer from malnutrition,
> >starvation and suppression.
> >
> >Diamond says that there once was a garden of Eden, but he does not say
> >that we are born sinners in any way, unlike what Jay Hanson says.
>
> Are you saying that people were "good" until attacked and corrupted
> by "agriculture"? <G> But "agriculture" didn't invade Earth from outer
> space, we invented it -- it's in our genes.
>
> Jay - www.dieoff.com
Agriculture became a catastrophe because, according to Jared Diamond,
all evidence (skelletons and bones from humans) shows that before
agriculture was developed humans were never suffering from hunger and
malnutrition. But some time afterwards it became usual that there were
times in humans lives when they were starving so much that it is
possible for scientist to read it from their bones.
What is in humans' genes are to invented, to develop, because we are
born curious. Children start to research everything they can touch as
soon as they are born. They want to know: "What is this"? And "What is
it for me, what can I do with it?" "How does it work"?
Everybody who has seen children knows that these questions are "in our
genes".
And from answering these questions agriculture was developed by humans.
Humans will try to research and develop the potential of everything, for
good and bad. Most for good I believe.
And when the potential of something is fully developed limits are
reached and there are crises. It is painful, but sooner or later we will
find other things to develop.
Whole civilizations and economies reached their limits. It is painful,
but life goes on.
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Tor Førde
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