Compare this with your life - just absurd...

[Tim R]

We are so out of touch with physical survival. 

Comparing my life with the lives of these people, I can't describe how absurd it feels to sit here at home, in this box that I call "my room", at my desk, in front of an electricity powered computer that gives me access to the knowledge of humanity, sipping coffee whilst marveling at the way our ancestors used to live. 

Just imagine what it would be like to swap your life with that of the tribe's chief. He takes your place and you his - how long would you survive? With the help of the tribe, perhaps a few weeks, maybe months? Or would you simply shrivel away at the overwhelming brutality of direct, physical survival? 

 

 

 

I feel modern people need to, at least occasionally, find ways of getting in touch with physical survival again.  We are so busy surviving on an abstract-identitarian level that we simply forget and take for granted the basic level of our survival.

I think reconnecting with physical survival would recontextualize our enterprise of abstract survival and expose a lot of the bullshit that we are so eager to defend. 

[Rilles]

You have to think the opposite way too. How long would it take for a tribal chief to get in trouble if you put him in a city, he would end up in prison within a week. Its all about how you have been socialized. 

[Leo Gura]

This is what you put on your Tinder profile:

Hobbies: Raiding a baboon camp