As we know it, the present time is the result of history. Everything we create, do and think is the evolution of history based on time. In the recent lectures, there was a topic discussed on how cavemen’s lifestyle that changed from hunting and foraging to purely agricultural. This topic really caught my interest as this change of lifestyle from the cavemen era has shaped the very world today we live in. I would like to discuss the possible outcomes if we had continued living the hunting lifestyle.
Hunting .(Foraging, Animal)
Source of Food
We study the notion of the animals hunted and follow their groups whenever they migrate. Means that our habitat was totally dependent on the animals hunted. This way, Humans that time have no permanent place to stay and were constantly on the move following the prey. Since our main sources of food are living animals, we had to analyze the prey’s behavior and character. (Weak spots, Strength, Speed, Size,). Humans that time were actually studying the animals by trial and error even if it means to lose their lives. The drawings on the cave walls could be their preferred animals to hunt. Noting the future generations of the best prey to survive on. Perhaps some drawings do indicate the specific characteristics of the particular animal.
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Technology
Since our lives are only focused on hunting animals. Weapons will be our 100% developing invention. Can you imagine what weapons might be today after millions of years developing it only for the sole purpose of hunting? It might be to so high tech until our technology today cant even compare to it. Animals have different textures of skin like fur, leather, hard skin, fatty layer skin. Different types of weapons have to be developed to hunt specific animals. For example, an elephant skin is harder and thicker compared to a deer.
Human Anatomy and Characteristic
Our characteristics today would be more aggressive and strong because hunting is our way of acquiring food. Bodies will be more masculine and fit due to the body exercises and cardiac running done to hunt animals. Traps would be highly developed too in the helps of hunting. linked and alike due to the teamwork required for prey hunting. Cooperation will be the key to hunting animals. Hunting together in groups will have tighter relationships because we depend on each other to survive. Less discrimination, hate, jealous, arguments among humans because we rely on each other to live.
Outcome
If our lifestyle stayed the hunting way, what would our life be today? Would we still have no permanent homes and still on the move? How much knowledge would we have gathered on animals after hunting them for millions of years without agriculture? Perhaps life would be better of today if we continued living the way following the prey as our lifestyle instead of agriculture. Less sickness, tighter relationships with one another, Healthier bodies, not lazy creatures that staying at home facebook-ing everyday?Agriculture. (Plantation, Vegetation)
Agriculture wise, once we plough the land and sow the seeds, we wait for the plants to bear fruit for a long period. This means, that we are bound to stay at a particular habitat for a long period of time before migrating. Whilst waiting for the plants to grow, we develop better shelters for ourselves and methods to speed plant growth (natural fertilizers, smooth water flow).
Lifestyle development
The fact that humans had to wait a long period for plants to bear fruit. They developed a feeling of home, making that particular place their permanent resident. This is what causes our life today to have homes, as a place to stay. Humans feel very insecure without a home because in our history we adapt to a home. As we stay at home, we create objects to make our lives easier. Like making wooden beds and stone as chairs. These inventions soon develop to technology we see today. Stone chairs eventually develop to those luxury sofas today. Through staying at home more. We study more about environmental concerns like water source, bright light source for plants to grow. Besides having a career in today’s life one must have a home they feel comfortable and secure at.
Attitudes and Behavior
Our attitudes today are softer, gentle and controlled. Due to the farming of the crops we develop patience and calmness. Because we stay in our shelters more, the need to hunt for food decreases means we are less aggressive in our lives that time. Over time, we lose our aggressive personality and develop other traits like Neat, Tidy, Shy, Outgoing, Quiet. Agriculture has caused our world today, we have stress, tension, sickness and other health concerns. People only focused on finding money rather than other important things.
WE CHANGED SO MUCH THAT THE WORLD ITSELF IS AFFECTED! TEMPERATURES ARE GOING UP, SPECIES OF ANIMALS EXTINCT, PEOPLE SUFFERING OF POLLUTED OXYGEN IN THE AIR WE BREATHE IN! WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO OURSELVES! WE CHANGED OUR LIFESTYLE WHICH LEADS TO OUR OWN DOOM. THE WORLD IS ON THE VERGE OF DYING AND WE ARE THE CAUSE OF IT! ALL THE INSECTS AND ANIMALS COMPLETELY WIPED OUT FROM THE WORLD OF EXISTENCE BECAUSE OF US! WE ARE THE CAUSE OF ALL THE SUFFERING IN THIS WORLD WE ARE TO BE BLAMED.
Riots, robbing, killing, torturing, murdering, raping. Every bad human habit develop is the result of agriculture lifestyle we changed to. We develop permanent shelters that we occupy so much space to fit our life. We cant possibly share a home with more than 20 people? Or sleeping in the same room with 4 people?? We spoil ourselves of space, develop homes near water source, killing animals that come for water. Lacking water, these animals die off and extinct over time.
Internet is the cause of many bad things? Violence influence, online porn, scams and viruses? Well this is the synthesis of human creatures communicating with one another again after millions of years living apart from each other. As we know the world was one giant land mass. As time passes the world split into islands and float away from each other. Means every human in the world is part of our ancestors too. We meet again via the internet. The term “facebook addict” can be seen as a bad name to have. It means youre just sitting at the computer on an internet url doing virtual stuff.
Sometimes I wonder to myself, what benefit have we gained from the lifestyle of agriculture? Technology helps make our lives easier, but it seems that it is making us LAZY. The world is suffering worldwide, Animals dying, Polluted Environment, Contaminated Waters. What have we really achieved today? Seems to me that we're just digging our own grave. Life would have been so much better if we followed the hunting lifestyle.
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