Article: The Arctic Suicides – It’s Not The Dark That Kills You
A very moving article about suicides (especially among young men) in Greenland. What Quinn called “Cultural Collapse” happened/is happening to the Greenlandic Inuit, and has happened before to all native
Article: The Tribe on the Front Line in the Battle to Save Indonesia’s Forests
The Orang Rimba – another tribe on the brink of extinction. Every other culture gets crushed under the wheels of our own cultural juggernaut. This has been going on for
Article: Forced Contact With Amazon People Would Be ‘Genocide’
How arrogant are the people of our culture – what’s so difficult about leaving them alone if they don’t want any contact? Can’t they speak for themselves and know what’s
Quote: The Savage Life
“No European who has tasted Savage Life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.” – Benjamin Franklin
Article: Give Up Technology & Go Back to ‘Hunting & Gathering’
You know primitivism succeeds when even the Business Insider starts writing about it. http://www.businessinsider.in/Give-up-Technology-Go-back-to-Hunting-Gathering/articleshow/53222031.cms
Article: The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave
The prejudice of early anthropologists, archaeologists and ethnologists still defines public opinion. It is time to teach our kids the truth about primitive life. http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/the-cavemans-home-was-not-a-cave-rp
Article: An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
The long read I read this story three times already because I find it so fascinating. It gives you insights in the brutal history of Brazil, as well as details
Article: Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence
The long read An excellent piece of scientific literature that describes how hunter-gatherers use elements of play to make their egalitarian lifestyle as easy and fun as possible. Play as
Article: Uncontacted Yanomami found
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/17/new-photos-emerge-of-uncontacted-tribe-in-the-amazon/ It turns out that some one hundred members of one of my favorite South-American tribes, the Yanomami, have so far been spared from devastating contact with the civilized world.
Article: Bone scans suggest early hominids spent significant time in trees
Climbing trees is woven deeply into our genes and is one of the most natural things to do for humans; it has the power to awaken some kind of archaic