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Rune
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| stripeypants wrote: | I think it's a problem to talk about prehistoric people as if they all shared one culture. Whatever prehistoric people did, I highly doubt they all acted in concert, or that they adhered to whatever gender imperative we feel like proving on any given day.
I think Jon Stewart* captured it best when he said that people who talk about going back to simpler, gentler times are actually referring to when they were ten year olds.
*Pretty sure it was him, talking about Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly |
Yup. That's why there's so much nostalgia for the 50's among certain groups. That's when all the old white men leaders were 10. |
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locuas
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| stripeypants wrote: | | I think it's a problem to talk about prehistoric people as if they all shared one culture. Whatever prehistoric people did, I highly doubt they all acted in concert, or that they adhered to whatever gender imperative we feel like proving on any given day. |
well, depending on the time period...they were basically animals who were guided by insitnct. they did not have a culture until they stopped being nomads. |
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stripeypants
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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If we're calling them people, doesn't that automatically mean we're talking about humans, neanderthals, and other such beings?
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Yinello
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| If you ask me, culture is formed as soon as people get together. Humans do need each other to survive after all. |
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Leohan
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| Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| Yinello wrote: | | If you ask me, culture is formed as soon as people get together. Humans do need each other to survive after all. |
I don't actually agree. Wolves go in packs but you can't call that culture. To me, culture is the moment when people start developing. Changing.
The movie A Space Odyssey pretty much nails the start of culture in the scene with the bone.
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Rune
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| Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| If locuas is suggesting that nomadic peoples cannot have a culture, then I cordially invite him to get his head out of his ass and do some reading on actual nomadic peoples. |
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