tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post6409125023674275823..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: The myth of the noble savageBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-19245369243543941972007-05-02T06:10:00.000-07:002007-05-02T06:10:00.000-07:00I nominate myself to be in the 1%. (I still have f...I nominate myself to be in the 1%. (I still have fantasies about the hunter and gatherer life.)Karlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15647211317186049289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-78668807205108624142007-04-30T21:58:00.000-07:002007-04-30T21:58:00.000-07:00Indeed, people are people. Period. The only perfec...Indeed, people are people. Period. The only perfect man got crucified for his troubles. People who push myths that some group of people were somehow more "noble" or "dignified" than some other group are full of it.<BR/><BR/>- Badtux the "People are people" PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-25171300648832928232007-04-30T21:24:00.000-07:002007-04-30T21:24:00.000-07:00i have offered more than once to take people out t...i have offered more than once to take people out to a place in the superstitions where my own ancestors (the ones they wax all poetic about living in harmony with nature and stuff) hunted buffalo by driving entire herds off a cliff. there are still mounded bones down in the arroyo. although if you begin to catalogue the forest of the colorado plateau you will find a much higher concentration of food bearing trees than would be expected to naturally occur. so, pretty much like every other civilization, they lived both because of and in spite of the environment.The Minstrel Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697821546165315014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-23146562963857299762007-04-30T20:50:00.000-07:002007-04-30T20:50:00.000-07:00Hey, you remebered brutish!:)Hey, you remebered brutish!<BR/>:)nunyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08833886980442919570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-619451939773342302007-04-30T18:57:00.000-07:002007-04-30T18:57:00.000-07:00Potteryweavingcookingbuildingstoriesdanceastronomy...Pottery<BR/>weaving<BR/>cooking<BR/>building<BR/>stories<BR/>dance<BR/>astronomy<BR/>geometry<BR/>(Prostitution)<BR/><BR/>[but don't talk about that!]<BR/><BR/>a very modest list of:<BR/><BR/>art<BR/>literature<BR/>science<BR/>etc<BR/><BR/>Available before Greece<BR/><BR/>Some people get it. <BR/>Some don't<BR/>Oh blah di<BR/>et al.<BR/>--mlMartin Langelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12214277415738344944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-69737548102225389112007-04-30T15:31:00.000-07:002007-04-30T15:31:00.000-07:00Very thoughtful post...and while you are still try...Very thoughtful post...and while you are still trying to move too. I guess Fang slept long enough for you to be able to write. Go Fang! You haven't been brutal to the cat anymore have you?sumohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03668836906276970398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-58423896918679513102007-04-30T14:02:00.000-07:002007-04-30T14:02:00.000-07:00interesting...so you are saying there is no way ou...interesting...so you are saying there is no way out of this mess we've gotten ourselves into?<BR/><BR/>well the mayan calendar says that will happen 2012<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar<BR/><BR/>time to buy a boat - eh noah?azgoddesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15190285114417409204noreply@blogger.com