Thursday, May 30, 2013

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? - Jared Diamond 2012 481 pages

It may be hard to believe, but the modern experts who tell us how to live life, may not be totally correct.
The aborigines from New Guinea let toddlers play with any sharp object they can pick up. They let the little ones play in and near the fire. These are all things that would get you or I hot-lined and possibly jailed. Yet the New Gueineans live lives that are just as satisfying as ours.

In many parts of the third world, children make their own toys. How sad. Our children get the newest and most high-tech we can afford. Yet the children in the third world exercise creativity and resourcefulness that our children do not learn with high-tech toys. Third world children play in groups and build life-long social skills, our children...
Hmmmmmm, wait a minute....

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