On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Dean Esmay wrote:

> Amazingly, most hunter/gatherers, when afforded the opportunity, eagerly
> take advantage of the benefits and entertainments and luxuries and culture
> and art forms of modern civilization.  Just as amazingly, almost no one who
> advocates a primitive hunter/gatherer existence as the happiest and
> healthiest for humans ever makes a serious effort to give up technology,
> form a tribe, and actually live that way. Even the anthropologists who go
> to live among hunter/gatherers for an extended period of time almost always
> come back home.

        What's so amazing about that?  Mongolian Proverb: "What, and give
up TV?"

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