The Nomadic Alternative
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1 The best travellers are illiterate. Narratives of travel are pale compensations for the journey itself, and merely proclaim the traveller’s inadequacy as a traveller.…
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neatly expresses the situation, “to take the advice of a wandering man about the construction of a house. The work will never come to completion.”…
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reaches a peak of inflammation at predictable hours… The symptoms include a chronic inability to remain in one place. “One is for ever in and…
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Total extinction is one of the few fresh experiences left for all to share. Few applaud the consequences of man’s appetite for novelty, but assume…
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The course of Progress has probably been the subject of more useless argument than any other single idea. “Belief in Progress”, wrote Baudelaire, “is a…
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Failure to live. Progress, once divinely ordained by God, is now sanctioned by evolution. Through ingenuity and their capacity for self-improvement, men dragged themselves from…
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material resources of his lands. If the evolutionary failure shows no aptitude for the arts of civilization, he is excused on the grounds of his…
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The Quest for the Ignoble Savage has been the object of several expensively equipped expeditions in recent years, and to the satisfaction of some the…
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Man. Briefly, they have observed the existence of a hierarchy of dominance in some (but not all) animal species, and presume its existence in men…
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10 such unnatural aberrations, he too must persuade them to run away. “Puny technologically backward groups”, Dr. Freeman has called such people, “living under the…
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tools at the base of the skulls, in that part called the foramen magnum, where the spinal cord enters to join the brain. But the…
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A hard look at cannibalism, prehistoric and present, reveals some startling anomalies. Evidence from his settlement sites certainly suggests that some Palaeolithic hunters ate men;…
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*Note: The relation of dog breeding to human eugenics was clearly articulated by Konrad Lorenz in a wartime racist rant entitled Die angeborenen Formen möglicher…
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exclusion of natural selection and altered feeding habits weaken the stock and disrupt the genetic character of civilized peoples once they have passed the days…
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Ignores the fact that the accession of symbolic thought asserted intellectual or rational control of the manufactory process. The hand is ultimately subservient to the…
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coincide with so many vested interests, this tempted another sort of progressive thinker to emancipate himself from the very idea of human nature and deny…
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→ : ‘Loaf Candles’ But these sentiments concern vertical ascents to something higher. In one way or another, they all exhibit a disdain of the…
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or the Dow Jones Index. We have the Descent of Orpheus and the Ascension of Mount Carmel. On a psychological plane we have the good…
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they are closer to the first state, and more removed from all bad habits that have infected the souls of settlers through many ugly blameworthy…
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informs the whole content of this book, and before pushing the comparison further I feel I must generalize on the degrees of human mobility. I…
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lacked a hierarchy of classes, and probably never will. And since a uniform rate of progress is impossible within the framework of its institutions, the…
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clothes, and has enjoyed a career of two million years or more, hunting in a state of Adamic nakedness. Life in the office, the cornfield,…
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predictable route with the certainty of an article of faith or an idea. This is “wandering for God” as opposed to “wandering for gain”. Pilgrims…
