At least I’d have my own hut or cave!
…on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
- Douglas Adams
It would’ve been what it would’ve been…
There MUST be more to this provincial life!
The interesting thing is that anatomically modern Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 years ago and did live exclusively as hunter-gatherers for about 280,000 of those years.
Which highlights the importance of education and learning about the things people learned before us.
Then they all got bored and invented the Wii U
Being invented by cavemen actually explains a lot. 🤔
It was what it was
Looks at grass “It is what it is” Sleeps outside
We as a a species did not inhabit caves regularly or as a standard.
☝️🤓
but yet there we were, watching the shadows. sorry, off topic, but i love that story.
I think saying that is just human nature. There’s not much you can do to change human nature. It is what it is.
Don’t search for “thought terminating clichés”
There you go.
It happens.
Why not.
So it seems.
Hard disagree. It only applies for things you cannot change but should try to accept rather than stressing over it.
If you say “it is what it is,” in reference to things you could change but choose not to, well that’s on you.
Would we be happier?
Grass huts seem a bit too involved, let’s just stand under a tree.
…*had* said to themselves…
On the other hand, we wouldn’t have climate collapse and microplastics.
Eurema’s Dam by R. Lafferty
https://ebookslib.org/sf/12898-eurema-s-dam.html
In this comic science fiction story, the author proposes that the only people who are truly inventive are those who are too inept to do anything else. The hero, unable to do simple math, invents a calculator at age six. He goes on to create any number of useful inventions, including intelligent robots who mock him as a buffoon.
Did my grandma write this because it sounds just like something my grandma would write.
