[lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.)

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 31 18:04:13 PDT 2007


--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


>
> "Proven to work"? Human beings have been around on
> this planet for many
> millenia; all the hunting and gathering societies
> that existed over
> the past 100,000 years "worked" just fine (otherwise
> we'd never be
> here!).

[WS:] You fail to mention that they survived for those millenia when there was no alternative to hunting and gathering, and started vanishing as soon as alternatives became available. So if those who knew hunting and gathering first hand abandoned it as soon as alternatives became available - perhaps this life style was not that great as Western intellectuals imagine it to be.

Wojtek

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