On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:34 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> Most of humanity _in civilization_ has
> been slaves, serfs, or women, mostly with 40 (or
> less)-year life expectancies, subject to plagues and
> famines at least once a generation, also endemic war,
> conquest, enslavement, conscription, rape, chronic
> disease, death in childbirth, paranoid witch hunts,
> irrational and cruel social taboos, 50%+ infant
> mortality, torture and the excesses of arbitrary and
> essentially unchecked power. H
Ah, but are they unhappy?