I also think Diamond is a great author. He has a way of zooming out beyond that of his peers, and is often able to provide a better view of the same topic.
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Quote by: waesel Is the author correct in his belief that agriculture is the root of all society's ills? If we had stayed as hunter-gathers what would have happened to classical music, modern medicine, and the microwave oven? |
I think he is fundamentally correct, but that evolution was inevitable in the end. One isolated hunter gatherer group, or another would have eventually decided that was the path of least resistance, and taken humanity down that same path in th end.
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Quote by: lsbskins Kinda makes you wonder a little at the Capitalist dogma all the way around. Maybe Osborn is right for entirely the wrong reasons. |
Here I thought he was arguing for the natural state of man that constitution recognized, and articulated. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.