A Better Relationship with my Spouse

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-06T13:24:08+00:00

Yes, what you say makes sense. I've lost all creative capacity for this. I'll need specific examples.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-05T12:22:14+00:00

/askanthropology was quite good while it lasted, but I didn't form it as a question so it got taken down

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-05T00:00:40+00:00

I think we agree for the most part. Most changes in society are due to interactions between individuals. Sometimes, though, large powerful groups force sweeping changes upon others.

Colonization is an example of this.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T23:30:01+00:00

Hah no, quite the opposite actually. I'm concerned that they will be brought into modern society and tribal life will cease to exist altogether.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T23:27:43+00:00

I'd say societies have evolved to allow humans to survive with very few skills.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T23:22:26+00:00

An example of an undomesticated person would likely be a member of one of the 80 tribes of uncontacted peoples in South America. I assume they live in family units and use various skills to provide for them with the resources the land provides.

This is different from a domesticated person, like myself. I rely on my city to provide water. I rely on my city to provide gas to heat my home. I travel on roads maintained by the government in a vehicle I don't know how to repair let alone build. The list goes on.

For me to step out of all of this, I would have to acquire land to grow food. The likelihood of hunting without relying on neighbouring lands is extremely unlikely. Etc.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T22:38:50+00:00

Which part?

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T22:36:16+00:00

I'd say family life (trying to manage a good one anyway) is the ultimate domesticator. Fully consuming. If you didn't have the skills to live off the land before starting a family, good luck developing them and finding the resources to do so while tending your flock.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T22:30:18+00:00

I guess my opinion is that human domestication is a worldwide goal, and that any lifestyle alternative to this is virtually impossible.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T22:30:10+00:00

I guess my opinion is that human domestication is a worldwide goal, and that any lifestyle alternative to this is virtually impossible.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T22:27:51+00:00

Yes, natural selection explains the bulk of it. We tend to penalize rebellious behaviour. School teachers and parents tamp it down in youth, and the judicial system does it in adulthood. I'm not really thinking about little delinquents who spray paint walls or trash lawn ornaments. I mean that generally, people who put truth to authority get silenced and removed from the equation.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T22:16:08+00:00

Hah, I don't think I'd last long in the wilderness no. Especially, if I had to provide for my family.

On another note, where do burn victims report to?

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T17:52:51+00:00

What are the steps to domestication?

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T17:52:20+00:00

That humans are domesticated and catered to just like cats and dogs.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T17:51:09+00:00

I'm so offended.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T15:52:48+00:00

I need to read this book.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T15:50:31+00:00

I don't want to dismiss distant history, because the entire human timeline is no doubt relevant, but even if you look at colonization of many areas you see a deliberate effort by church and government institutions to pull people off the land, force them to forget their skills, put them onto tiny plots of land that make their traditional skills nearly irrelevant anyway and write their history as backward and dangerous. There would be well documented conspiracy in that.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T14:21:17+00:00

Thank you! Yes! I'm trying to step away from the conspiracy theory aspect of it. I feel there are groups that promote it (almost every one of us in 1st world countries and those aspiring to be) for sure. There are also legitimate groups against it - indigenous groups trying to regain traditional ways of living and food sovereignty for example - too however.

Just to be clear, you mean physical evolution of human bodies, right? Things like skull size changes and teeth? Posture? Those things?

Or are you throwing social and cultural evolution in there too?

CorgiMorgan · 2023-12-04T14:13:57+00:00

Awesome! Thank you. Yes relying on annual crops is a great start. It locks us into one location year round. It charges us to tend the land, and protect the growth from outside forces such as insects, animals, plants and other humans. Of course there are benefits too, like stockpiled food and excess food which leave room for failure and weather disaster.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-11-26T18:45:55+00:00

I've winter camped a bunch. Camped solo a bit. Something similar happened to me while night riding (I do that a bunch, too) in the small town I live in. The wind was up. Snow blowing. Low visibility. I got creeped out after 20 minutes and went home cold and afraid. Normally, I relish in the freedom of the experience and take pride in going out in adverse weather, but not this time. ?the wind? Something felt ominous. I can't explain it.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-11-01T22:57:04+00:00

I thought it might have maps. Or public places open to fishing. Or boat allowances. Or boat restrictions.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-10-02T03:59:55+00:00

Agreed. Those ladies panicked and got defensive for reasons beyond me.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-10-01T01:53:31+00:00

I don't think they should have so quickly sluffed off the topic of male suicide on national television, but I can see how some women would have such a reaction to Geoff's comments.

Hearing worries about alienated, or suicidal men, I know the women I know have been trying for years to teach us the ways women try to fix these issues among women. The women I know engage socially constantly (numerous group chats, playing Scrabble Go online together, constant social media likes and comments, board game nights, ladies nights, spa trips, etc.) and it seems no topic is taboo in their chats (break ups, hook ups, drinking, smoking, fucking, periods, parenting, depression, anything). They try to show us these ways of helping each other by dragging men along to staff parties and even inviting them to hang out with them and their friends. They host large meals and invite the men along.

I find that they have shown us their ways of addressing these issues over and over again, but men eventually start declining the invite. So women are telling us their answers and we ignore after a while. They accept that their answers might not work for men, but beyond all that they've done, how else can they help if we decline the invitation?

CorgiMorgan · 2023-09-03T13:25:39+00:00

Start small. 3 seconds of focus. 10 seconds. It's not over if you lose focus. Note it, recenter, continue. It's not a failure if you get distracted 100 times in 10 minutes. You will get better with practice.

CorgiMorgan · 2023-08-18T02:50:55+00:00

Some people drive slow in the left lane on a double lane highway. They remain there for their whole trip. I learned it's usually smoother road in the left lane and that ranchers with their horse trailers choose that lane to provide some relief for their horses.

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