• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    There’s no way humans didn’t have human problems. This seems like an extension of the “good ol’ days” that views the past with rose tinted glasses. There absolutely would have been theft, murder, laziness, have-nots…whatever. People are people.

    Ninja edit: found this.

    https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/bitstream/handle/11122/9753/8729.02.conn.1991.punishment-precolonial-indigenous.ch.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y

    Banishment, execution, murder, and theft among other things were absolutely a thing.

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      Were there not many different tribes? It stands to reason that there could well have been a range of different lifestyles too. Including that described above.

      My point being that other recorded experiences with native americans do not invalidate this rosy reminiscence.

      It is in no way a workable solution to the modern maladies of this fractious over-crowded planet but it does help to have a range of idealised utopias to draw from in our discussions of how to proceed.

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        Ok. An unsourced meme is not historical fact. It’s disturbing that it’s even taken as valid with no corroborating information, you arguing as if it were true, and using opinion to manufacture “proof” such a “different tribes” and “lifestyles”. There’s plenty of made up bullshit floating around on the internet in pic/text format, why is this one granted any more believability? Do you have a legitimate source indicating any such “utopias” or do you just want to keep making things up?

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      12 hours ago

      I would go so far as to say this is some classic “noble savage” bullshit that only serves to dehumanize people.

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        Not even remotely close to a utopia, especially when compared to modern day, but I’m sure that doesn’t matter to you.