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Sam Alaimo's avatar

Excellent post. This is one of my favorite subjects.

I truly believe that the majority of modern errors of thought (and probably all of the existential angst) are a result of not being fully integrated in the ancestral environment, particularly the simple HG system.

We have an ancestral shaped hole in our lives, and right now it is being filled with many poor replacements.

Thank you for this post.

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Grundvilk's avatar

I agree. Lots of factory resets warranted. Thanks for your comment, Sam.

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My pleasure. I just subscribed. Looking forward to the rest of your work.

And one of the best aspects of the modern world is that we are able to marry the best of ancient and modern: we can enjoy stable food supplies, yet get our ancient craving satisfied with sauna and ice tubs; we can enjoy anesthesia, yet get our filling of lactic acid in the gym; and on and on.

Many factory resets indeed.

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That's an interesting guess about the matter -- but maybe the real problem is that the West is generally a particularly crazy bit of humanity right now and gets a little berserk and manic about pretty much anything that initially gets its goat (a bit of shepherd humor there). After all, witness how absolutely nuts and strident so many people from the West get online when anyone says pretty much anything that strikes them as 'not acceptable'. As to one possible reason (major or minor?) much of the West is so crazy, see my post of today: https://grundvilk.substack.com/p/more-likely-knock-on-effects-of-the

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I guess the 'real shepherds' are just going to have to get tougher and smarter, then. Good goal. In my opinion, Abbey was something of an arrogant, pinky-bending slob. Probably didn't change his underwear very often, either.

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