kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote:
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> but that does not mean that life was/is idyllic.
Here we go again. Alternatives to the present have to pass the test of whether they are "idyllic" or not. I presume you claim that (e.g.) neolithic villages, Roman slaves, Congolese under Leopold, all lived idyllic lives in contrast to hunter-gatherers.
I wouldn't mind this, except this "Is it Idyllic" test is _also_ regularly applied to struggling socialist regimes.
Carrol