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i promised you a uh... a quick grant um... on this whole issue of
younger versus older cultures i want to do that
uh... in in my book last hours of ancient sunlight a ike
put forward this hypothesis
and in some ways it's kind of of the variation on daniel quinn's hypothesis
of takers and levers
that he puts forward in his uh... brilliant fish mail novels
the reddish bill in my ishmaol on the story of beatty's three novels but but
if they are my age bill if you haven't here already scallops
really worth going on getting
and he told the story unenglish mills a story of a talking gorilla who basically
tells this young man
the history of of out humanity came to screw things up
and it all started when we locked up the food
in other words all started with the agricultural revolution
and
and a out you know this is one of the themes that's in my book the last hour
sanction sunlight which is a nonfiction work as opposed to quindoys work which
was a novel
fingerprints done this program a number of times over the years brilliant an
and and what i was trying to do is
document s
and just blared out here's here's how it works that
cultures that have gone through a bottleneck
cultures that have experienced
destruction of their own world by themselves now there is caused by
themself ste
those cultures figure out new ways to live
that are sustainable
so if you look at
at uh... you know the tribes of the amazon where
um...
there's actually many different rides the file this practice several of them
are rather famous but uh... where they will
uh... take an area that is
you know couple of acres dot fell the trees inward toward the center of it
uh... they'll plant sweep it isn't things they'll burn some of the areas
and basically they create a garden
and they live off it for the next two or three years
and then they move on you know fifty yards are fifty miles down the road to
another five miles down the road to another place and they do the same thing
and what they're doing and they just you know continuously doing this
use these jungle dollars
and what they're doing really is they're opening up the jungle in places in
creating a more diverse ecosystem
they're actually part of the ecosystem there are small plants that need that
open space in order to start out
and their plans they're different stages now i know is this is this is something
that this is one of the functions that for example emerging west fire provides
before people work
and so people are doing that lie contention was that become good stewards
of their own land
and by the time for generations down the road that they get back to the original
circle it's back to jungle again
and i refer to those cultures as older cultures as in older and wiser
gameplay referred to them as levers another as they they occupy
space on this planet
throughout their lifetimes
and they'd leave behind what they found
verses what quinn call the takers what i call the younger culture
people who are keep ir specialist plan n just sucked on everything they can get
and leave virtually nothing they take
and
i would submit to you uh... the this
hole
white culture thing this whole their public a nation of the white people are
under assault
the the romney idea that
that uh... bob barnard are
ackerman in
brown skin president is giving gifts to brown skin people of all stripes
these are the kinds of stories the younger culture still cell
'cause they'd they haven't seen they haven't seen how how bad it works
and that white culture i would submit to you release european culture
has been badly badly damage
first and dan
well you know if i had to answer
object forbes's question professor jack forbes's question what was the came up
the caucuses
i would say it was the celts
three thousand years ago
people living in europe
white people
we're living tribal lee and largely sustainably
jefferson writes about the since diaries he was in love with the week histories
who had a major g histories the weight histories where the
as uh...
or european data rocks what was his first time forget that
there at the end it's ross was
uh...
the the last name of one of the week historians and he wrote about the
history of the tribal people of england before
the roman invasion
around the town crest
and
crap you know the do all languages they spoken and how the tribes were organized
not hair was end and jefferson had read these week histories and he looked at
the native american cities of these the same thing
and then three thousand years ago the celts came
and swept across europe in organize injured trading groups but they let
people keep their religion in the let people keep their language
they were then followed by the romans
two thousand years
rahman's wiped out your
and they said
basically where maybe you can have your religion batsmen and probably not so
much we maybe have your religion but here at the speed latin
and that she got all these so-called romance languages all based in latin
your french tally in spanish
and them
and that you know and they never gotten up in the far northward where the where
the scandinavians in the germanic speaking people lived
cancel those impose languages were still intact
and uh... buzz in your za go to catholic church
took over most here
and said now you can even have your religion anymore
so
it all you had told the story before near you know going back to norway
looking for my grant
my grant
bothers home and find it
and is a stone in the backyard of right
seventy hundred-year-old star maybe a little older it's got regretting not
nobody today knows how to read
because
those people were so
culturally wiped out so culturally impoverish
so here we have this young culture this culture that has no recollection
of going through a bottleneck no recollection of going through a series
crisis caused by itself
and therefore that so it's a it's like
being is like reply commonly x
practice *** along all that at least bellman leased louise knew that they're
going to go off
and there are some among us saying hey wait a minute that's a clip
at three and a parts-per-million cutbacks at ucla
but uh... feel younger culture is
immature
and stupid
and something we all need to be looking at address