The New Aboriginal- Combining Our Ancestors Knowledge with Safe Technologies

Our domesticated life is a block between us and what needs to be done to live sustainable. We are too disconnected from the world. Arthur Haines, a taxonomist and primitive skill expert lays out the philosophical problems as well as environmental problems of domesticated human life. He outlines a new path towards a "New Aboriginal" man in a video titled by the same name.

Here is a summary of his premises.

Our reliance on civilization's technologies from the beginnings of agriculture have made people according to the fossil record: weaker, dummer, and unhealthier. Indigenous people- the surviving ones still remaining have been shown to be healthier, with less cavities and degenerative diseases.

Agriculture has allowed for population explosions, trading high calories for bad nutrition.

Hunter Gatherer societies technologies were specific to regions and possessed skills to survive in their own local landscapes, with the foresight to have healthy children.

Now compared with those with modern people of today "who are utterly dependent on the craft and wares constructed in some distant land.. unable to feed cloth or heal themselves; people who are essentially aliens on their own wild landscapes; people who are unable to decipher which plant species could be used for what purpose; unable to build any hunting weapons; lacking dietary wisdom, and producing children with dietary deficiencies and physiological problems; spending very little time outside the home; requiring a thermostat to stay comfortable, and completely domesticated; possessing a blunted awareness of the plight of the world.

Self reliance and Nature Competency were the norm in Hunter-Gatherer Societies. They were egalitarian.

Civilization allowed for specialization, bureaucracy and the accumulation of wealth.  It has also disconnected people from the world.

"People believed they had dominion over the earth."

Speciation of humans has continued into the modern age to produce a new subspecies of human which he calls, Homo Sapiens Domestico Fragillus; so named because we are domesticated and more fragile than our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

We can not go back. Most of our landscapes are too altered to go back to hunter-gathering. Property lines make it impossible to migrate from growing grounds to winter hunting grounds. It simply is not possible in most places.

That doesn't mean we should keep going forward into domestication. Arthur Haines has a third way.  We can follow a path which can combine our benign technologies with our ancestors knowledge to follow a new path.  His words are better thought out than my own:

"It has taken generation for humans to lose their ancestral skills and their ancestral strengths...  The situation can not be corrected in one generation; it means generations to alter mindsets, build strong healthy bodies and relearn skills that promote self-reliance without polluting the landscape.... Imagine people that commit to learning the most sustainable technologies on the planet, who nourish their children so that they are capable of seeing the state of our world and like their parents follow this new path of heightened physical, emotional and spiritual health. Imagine a path where people possess the awareness of wild creatures and regain a connection to the landscape. Just like domestication has led to speciation, re-wilding can as well. We can alter the present day course to recreate ferile hominids; a population of people who combine incestral skills with benign modern technologies; people who can once again feed, heal and cloth themselves; who don't hide in them homes and have heightened senses of awareness; people who would classified as Homo Sapiens Neo Aboriginalis; the New Aboriginals."