Some of you know Im off on one about a foraging culture as opposed to one that depends on land acquisition (Im not specifically promoting the former nor denigrating the latter; just saying). Heres the connection with war: Its easy to believe that war is an integral part of human nature. The evidence shows otherwise. Jacob Bronowski says ...war, organized war, is not a human instinct. It is simply a highly planned and co-operative form of theft. Interestingly, there is no firm evidence, from any source, to suggest that humans engaged in any form of inter-group conflict or violence before at the earliest 10,000 BCE, says Tim Wallace Murphy. In fact, the first recorded war of which we have any historical certainty took place between Upper and Lower Egypt about 3200 BCE. This conflict, like so many others since, was about the acquisition of land. In the hunter-gatherer societies that have survived until the twentieth century, violent and aggressive behaviour is ritualized and rarely results in serious injury. It is so-called civilized man, not the primitives, who invented and engaged in war, later refining it... to the point where the entire planet could be destroyed and all forms of life extinguished forever... more on my blog should you wish to know roselle-angwin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/hunter-gatherer-settler-part-2.html
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:28:21 +0000
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