Sigh...

By: Andrew Sakach

Reading Reflection: 3

Okay, in OV on pages 6-8 in the Recent Oral Peoples section I've got a couple big problems. First, it states that people had harsh lives and they had to constantly struggle to survive and therefor prayed to many gods or goddesses. That's just bullshit, I'm sorry. It's been proven through Anthropological research consistantly that the less 'complex' your culture is (aka don't need a billion different things just to make a car) the more leasurly your lifestyle. In most hunting/gathering/farming societies you'd only spend about 4 hours a day on average doing 'work' to stay alive. While in our country in this day in age with ALLLLLLLL our awesome technology, about all of us still have to work 8 hour days in order to pay the bills. So tell me WHO has the harsher life where you have to oh so struggle to survive, where our only sources of food come from the sweat off our back (not to mention all the cheap labor overseas and in our own country) or our ability to steal, coerce or forage food from dumpsters (which I do occasionally), whereas hunting/gathering/farming communities only had to walk out of their village and find a place FILLED with food, more food than in any supermarket... and it's name? The World. A world that we were once a part of.