I want to learn more about the natural state of humans (pre-civilization, hunter & gatherer tribes) and what we were like before the satanic forces of agriculture. I want to understand how humans tend to act in nature because I feel it'd give me better understanding of myself. What books are good for this? I already read "Civilized to Death" by Christopher Ryan and I'm looking for something similar.
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott (Yale anthropologist), is exactly what you're looking for.
Levy-Bruhl - How Natives Think, The Mystic Experience and Primitive Symbolism
Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
Conan The Barbarian
>>24116143good thread thanks for the suggestions10,000 year explosion is a good book about similar things
>>24116143you might enjoy booting up JSTOR and just searching the early civilizations you are curious about that we have a record of. most of the academic treatment of this stuff is anthropological by nature not what you're asking for, but you might get a lot out of Bookchin's Ecology of Freedom. a hunch
>>24116187I lol'd, have a (you). They are top shelf pulp.
good thread
Cozzens' Indian Wars TrilogyAmbrose's Custer & Crazy HorseBancroft's book on King Philip's WarCurtis' North American IndianPerlman's Against His-Story, Against LeviathanPrice's Nutrition and Physical DegenerationEtkind's Nature's EvilAnderson's Creatures of EmpireMann's 1491Frank Waters - Book of the HopiTurner - The North American ReaderFour Souls of Coyote (2023)your mileage may vary
>>24116143>human condition>treating being human / ontology as a pathology that needs to be curedtranshumanism is anti-human.it's hyper-existentialism: existence without essence (no nature/no-humanity)
>>24117691not to mention this "philosophy" is Anti-Logos("let's make humanity in anything BUT God's Image!")
>>24117702not to mention the intersection between Transexualism, Neoliberal Consumerism, and Transhumanism™ with regards to purchasing one "nature" wholesale.
>>24117714and let's not forget that even Nick Land's schizophrenic clock can be right once a day about hyper-racism emerging from a transhumanistic technocratic elite (think cyborg-"chosen people").
>>24117722why are you sperging about transhumanism in an anti-civ thread
>>24117726I don't like the author Harari.I don't like the concept/will behind the book (Techno-Feudalistic Transhumanism).I want to help anons avoid falling into this false framing and sophistry of humanity and the imperative to give people like Harari and his friends more attention & power.
>>24117736I agree with you that transhumanism is for entertainment addicted nerds, but this clearly isn't the thread for it
>>24117749not that anon, but that is one of the harari's biggest things that he goes on about, the book in OP's image is by him and is basically a primer/PR piece for justifying transhuman ideas. the other anon didn't just come out of nowhere with this, this is directly related to the topic at hand. i am sorry that you are too low intelligence to understand that.
