Mother Culture talks about how life was so appalling before The Agriculture Revolution but, what the main character finds is completely another story. “Mother Culture teaches that, before the revolution, human life was devoid of meaning, was stupid, empty, and worthless. Prerevolutionary life was ugly. Detestable.” Pg 216 What's more incredible is how Takers will belive what Mother Culture tells them to belive; these people couldn’t think of any other explanation to their questions and this made them become ignorant.
What Mother Culture comes to make us think is that we were not born to be hunter-gathers but agriculturalist; she tells that we are born with the instinct to be agriculturalist but what we clearly posses the gift of being hunter-gather. “Man was as well adapted to life on this planet as any other species, and the idea that he lived on the knife-edge of survival is simple biological nonsense. As an omnivore, his dietary range is immense. Thousands of species will go hungry before he does. His intelligence and dexterity enable him to live comfortably in conditions that would utterly defeat any other primate.” Pg 220
What I came to understand is that humans were built to live on earth; like hunter-gathers they have the instinct and knowledge to get their food and live comfortably. “Far from scrabbling endlessly and desperately for food, hunter-gathers are among the best-fed people on earth, and they manage this with only two or three hours a day of what you would call work- which makes them among the most leisured people on earth as well.” Pg 220
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