I rolled my ankle yesterday and it's really put into perspective how raw life used to be. I mean, I'd be pretty much starving and picking berries while I waited for my leg to heal.Do you ever think about this when you get sick or injured? Just how detrimental shit used to be compared to now.
>>18544809I have type 1 diabetes anon, if I were alive in ooga booga times I'd die a slow painful agonizing death from hyperglycemia
>>18544816Type 1 Diabetes didn't exist in ooga booga times.
>>18544809We have tons of evidence of humans and even proto humans with healed major injuries. And with just debilitating birth deformities and such. The consensus is your family/tribe took care of you in these cases.
>>18544809>I mean, I'd be pretty much starving and picking berries while I waited for my leg to heal.Your immediate ooga booga relatives, and extended unga bunga family, would be taking care of you while you recovered. Unless you were a cunt, in which case there's a none 0% chance they might cave-in your head with a large stone and eat you. We have fossils going back to 100,000 years of Neanderthals and Cromagnons with broken bones, major fractures, who've had their bones set and healed, we have fossils of caveman senior citizens with no teeth, riddled with terrible arthritis, and they were taken care of for years. We've got a lot of fucked up injuries to suggest an incredibly rough and tumble life of tackling herbivores, getting gored, launched 15ft into the air, having your head clubbed, but a lot of these people also got better.
>>18544809You probably only rolled your ankle because of your sedentary, industrialized lifestyle. People walked constantly, and were moving over uneven terrain which made them develop strong legs and a good sense of balance. You are modern and weak, and the hunter chads in your pic would almost never have rolled an ankle. They would still get killed all the time, however, especially as children. also >>18544841
>>18544820They had far worse problems to contend with that diseases you get from having too much food available.
>>18544848>diseases you get from having too much food available.type 1 diabetes is juvenile and genetic and has nothing to do with diet or exercise, people probably did have it back then but to them it just manifested itself as someone with sweet tasting piss that felt like dogshit all the time and they just didn't know how to treat it
>>18544809When i was a kid I had a cyst in my jaw removed, which had formed around one of my adult teeth and prevented it from rising. Without modern medicine this would have eventually become infected leading to sepsis. To premodern man I would have been healthy, suddenly experienced jaw pain, then died in a few days from a fever. I think about this when I see that the historical record is so filled with deaths of what was described as either "sudden death" or "death from fever" where a seemingly healthy person suddenly developed a fever and was dead almost instantly.Also I think about hiw dangerous childbirth was. Its crazy to think it was for women what the risk of dying in war was to men.
>>18544820You dont know that. I think it probably did but people with it would be very unlikely to live long.
>>18544809Hunter gatherer societies were entirely tribal, where every member of the group was blood related family, and led by a shaman. Culturally they were collective, seeking to maintain the harmony & unity of the group above individual gain, & interpreted reality as being influenced by various spirits. You're attempting to apply modern individualistic atomized notions of interpersonal reality unto exceedingly ancient societies that didn't operate anything like how modern humans do. If you rolled your ankle, the shaman would either use whatever understanding of herbal treatments they had to attempt to alleviate the pain of your condition (and likely psychogenetic or otherwise mind altering drugs) and/or attempt to channel a spirit to heal/preserve your leg while the tribe cared for you, or attempt to cast out a harmful spirit if it was perceived that your injury was a result of treading on sacred ground or other activity that would anger such a spirit.
>>18544846>You probably only rolled your ankle because of your sedentary, industrialized lifestyleI play college rugby and have a 535 back squat.
>>18544888>tirely tribal, where every member of the group was blood related family, and led by a shaman. Culturally they were collective, seeking to maintain the harmony & unity of the group above individual gain, & interpreted reality as being influenced by various spiritsYou dont know that.
>>18544816What's that like to die from?
>>18544970I dunno, I'll have to find someone who died of it so I can ask them. It doesn't really sound all that fun having high blood sugar to the point where you slip into a coma, before that you feel like shit, are intensely thirsty but also constantly have to piss, all your joints are sore, every minor thing feels like a herculean task, not fun, would not recommend.
>>18544809Minor shit like that would have arguably been less of an issue then than now, at least for people that don't get sick leave. You weren't hunting a mammoth every day anyway. So taking it easy for a couple of days on basket weaving duty would be no big deal. Quite unlike having to drag your ass in to work anyway because otherwise you won't be able to pay your rent.It would be more major problems like broken bones and infections that would have sucked a lot harder.
>>18544993I feel like that all the time but I'm not diabetic. Wtf is my problem?
>>18545022I dunno man maybe get your bloodsugar checked
>>18545024I get annual physicals and it's always normal. Oh well.
>>18545038You can honestly just get those things by being a lazy fatass (like me) even if your blood sugar is fine and you don't have a lick of diabetes.You could also have sleep apnea.Or be drinking too much caffeine, because caffeine causes you to piss out all your water, which makes you thirsty, which makes you drink more of your caffeinated beverage, which makes you piss more, until you're dehydrated which causes all of those other symptoms to a T (Caffeinated beverages also tend to be sodas which make you a fatass see point 1)..
>>18544809>I rolled my ankle yesterday and it's really put into perspective how raw life used to be. I mean, I'd be pretty much starving and picking berries while I waited for my leg to heal.>Do you ever think about this when you get sick or injured? Just how detrimental shit used to be compared to now.The only way to make sense of your post is to assume you're talking from the perspective of the mammoth from the pic and not the humans, who are clearly members of a tribe.
>>18545284But if he can't afford his health insurance premiums, why would his tribe help him?
>>18545303>why would his tribe help him?Because socialized health care is communism and communism is human nature.
>>18544957>I play college rugbySo you run around on an even grass field.
>>18544816You wouldn't have developed type 1 diabetes in the first place.
>>18545367>>18544820>>18544848
>>18544884The childbirth thing is crazy, because it really isn’t that long ago where it stopped being really dangerous lol. Boys Rule!
>modernity is good because my dysgenic chronically ill ass would've died in any other contextlol
>>18544809All the time. It's fucked up but I do get a chuckle at the thought of just how many cavemen died just figuring out what plants and mushrooms were safe to eat. Had to be tons in the beginning. " Can eat this one papa?" " No, oog die from that one." lol
>>18546642>implying they didn't just make war captives test them firstDumb niggercattle projects its genetically programmed impotence.
