I like "some 4,000 generations of humans knew of nothing but harsh winds and eternal snows," because it implies that my ancestors were so stupid and so sedentary they just sat there in the katabatic gale and bitched about the weather, instead of going someplace a bit warmer like all the other animals.
Yeah, I was bemused by how he basically ignored how all but a handful of our ancestors were wisely living well south of the "harsh winds and eternal snows." We hear a lot about the ice-enduring mammoth hunters because they lived in Europe, and European anthropologists can be kind of self-centered. But for every ice age mammoth hunter, there were probably 10 or 20 ice age people living in nice balmy places like Africa, India, South Asia, and so on.
"It's cold! It's cold and windy and cold and snowing and cold! It's always been cold!" "Hm. Maybe we should go to that warm valley over--" "It! Is! COLD!!!"
... because it implies that my ancestors were so stupid and so sedentary they just sat there in the katabatic gale and bitched about the weather, instead of going someplace a bit warmer like all the other animals.
Er, what about the Inuit, the Lapps, etc? Tongue only somewhat in cheek, are you calling them all "stupid" and, even, "sedentary"?
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"It's cold! It's cold and windy and cold and snowing and cold! It's always been cold!"
"Hm. Maybe we should go to that warm valley over--"
"It! Is! COLD!!!"
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"IT IS COLD."
"But, no neighbors!"
"Because they went south. Where it is not COLD."
"If everybody you know jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?"
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Wait, what?!?
Er, what about the Inuit, the Lapps, etc? Tongue only somewhat in cheek, are you calling them all "stupid" and, even, "sedentary"?
Re: Wait, what?!?