At 04:30 PM 8/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
>[CLIP]
>Reminds me of an excellent book I read recently, "Guns, Germs, and Steel".
>By a UCLA professor. Explains clearly and succinctly why some civilizations
>rose to dominate others, all because of biogeography. Nothing to do with
>superior intelligence.
>
>Which relates back to why villages are a good thing. 15,000 years ago, when
>all humans were hunter-gatherers in small bands, they spent just about all
>their time looking for food. They were on the move, so they couldn't
>produce anything of any mass, to much bother to carry it around. And when
>it's all you can do to get through the day with enough calories to stay
>alive, you don't have time left to do anything else.
>
>With the domestication of certain wild grains in the Mesopotamia (now Iraq)
>and western China, all that changed, leading to villages and people with
>time on their hands and then down the centuries to where we are today: only
>a small fraction of the population of the developed world spends time
>raising food, everyone else does wild and crazy stuff like staring at
>glowing flasks of void and muttering incantations to the electron demons...
>
>Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you liked that book, Check out:
The Sovereign Individual : How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of
the Welfare State
by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684810077/cyberspacepublis
and Trends 2000 : How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the
21st Century
by Gerald Celente at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446673315/cyberspacepublis
and yes, I get 15% if you purchase either book from the above links.
Great reading, though, even if you buy them locally. I consider them as
"must" reading for preparing for the next culture shock.
Tom Fosson
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