Civlization

I will start out in defending the lifestyle of the hunter-gatherers. I recognize that hunter-gather life being an alternative to the Status Quo doesn't justify prove it to be better than the Status Quo by itself. Hunter-gatherer has been used for most of human history before civilization and even a few remaining today such as the Mbuti, Kalahari Bushmen, Hadza people and various others, but most have been converted or forced into the new capitalist industrialist life, or the agricultural life. As for the remaining hunter-gatherers are being forced off there land (which there ancestors had lived for thousands and thousands of years) by governments. Hunter-gatherer societies work from 14-19 hours a week, yet it is unclear whether to define it as work, because most of it is skilled tasks such as fishing, firemaking, hunting, tool making and so forth. Now it may just be personal preference but I would find the skills and tasks preformed by the hunter-gathers are more interesting and fulfilling than working at an 8 hour desk job, or in a mine, or spending from sunrise till sundown working on maintaining a farm which requires lots of work. Al the social organization is mostly egalitarian and the absence of patriarchy which emerged early in civilization, in other words women and men are equal in economic and social life. Hunter-gatherers don't use barter or monetary exchange, instead they use a sustainable gift economy in which everyone shares resources in order to get resources. Unlike capitalism where everyone in society competes against each other to horde resources to themselves, people share resources in an act of mutual aid which is contrast to the view of the capitalists that human nature is competitive. Even when a bushmen kills an animals with a arrow he uses poison that puts the animals to sleep so that it will not suffer a painful death. The hunter tells the animals that he doesn't want to kill it but has to provide for his/her family. This connection with nature is unseen in civilization which most people are isolated from nature and view it as a mere resource to be exploited. The lack of hierarchy and a tendency for egalitarianism is caused by many factors which keeps society in it's natural equilibrium. Hunter-gathers move around and get food from multiple land-bases, this prevents from chieftains or rulers to form. In areas such as the Pacific Northwest West (which I live in) have more concentrated resources. Pacific Northwest Tribes could stay in a one place and they had more hierarchy in there societies than hunter-gathers as the Bushmen. We can now conclude that hunter gatherers are egalitarian, distribute resources by sharing in a gift economy, stay mobile (decentralizing the land bases which they get food). Have a unique view of nature in a way a spiritual view. (I am an atheist but religions will naturally emerge and religions which support nature and aren't violent and oppressive like Christianity which emerged in civilization are fine with me and actually beneficial!) Contains skilled tasks rather than repetitive unskilled work. Work is 14-19 hours a week compared to 40-45 hours at the least in rich civilizations. Now for civilization. Why should we work are whole lives being told that this is leading to some great end. Power, wealth success or whatever in a unsustainable system which is destroying the world. Is the great pyramids, technology, art worth the human suffering. Ultimately this comes down to whether we should value civilization and stay civilized at the cost of the earth and ourselves. OVER half the people in the world make less than a $1 a DAY! While on the opposite extreme of the hierarchy lies the wealthy CEO's politicians, Corporate Investors. They are the rulers they are at the top of the hierarchy of civilization owning most of the worlds resources, privatizing water and food. If we CHOOSE to be a rational free society them we should have the empathy to allow basic elements of survival such as Food, Water and Shelter as attainable regardless of power of the economic ladder. Civilization has released the violent aggressive tendency's of Man. To serve artificial institutions that care nothing for us and keep the system of domination, conquest, and exploitation into perpetual motion. The planet will not be saved by "green technologies" because technology is a double edged sword. Nuclear energy was supposed to save the world but it gave us atrocities such as Hiroshima, Cherynoble, Long Island. Technology can be used for dangerous purposes and this risk is increased highly when these dangerous technologies are at the hand of the rulers themselves. We can vote into the system, but to gain decision making power for everyone in a society requires the destruction of civilization. Nanotechnology is coming soon and technocrats, futurists, and transhumanists are praying for this technological advancement which they believe will benefit man, but they fail to realize that this can enslave mans own mind and destroy the world much quicker than the nuclear bomb could. Voters I declare that the only way in which Homo Sapiens will survive and live happily is through the collapse of civilization. The transition may be deadly but it will happen eventually. By than it may be too late for life on earth, but this is the tyranny which this civilizing system imposes on the world.