34495Y111Hunter-GatherersHadNotSeenThemselves.


AS SUPERIOR
BEINGS BECAUSE THEY
WERE SELDOM AWARE OF
THEIR IMPACT ON THE ECOSYSTEM?
A typical band numbered in the dozens,
it was surrounded by thousands of wild animals,
and it's survival depended on understanding and respecting
the desires of these animals! Foragers had to constantly ask themselves
what deer dream about, and what lions think. Otherwise, they could not hunt the deer,
nor escape the lions... Farmers, in contrast, lived in a world controlled and shaped by human
dreams and thoughts?! Humans were still subject to formidable natural forces such as storms
and earthquakes, but they were far less dependent on the wishes of other animals!? A farm boy
learned early on to ride a horse, harness a bulk, whip a stubborn donkey and lead the sheep to
pasture. It was easy and tempting to believe that such everyday activities reflected either the
natural order of things òr the wìll of heaven? The Agricultural Revolution was thus both an
economic ànd a religious revolution! New kinds of economic relations emerged together
with new kinds of religious beliefs that justified the brutal exploitations of animals......
This ancient process can be witnessed even today whenever the last remaining hunter-
gatherer communities adopt farming?!!
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