![]() To think of Civilisation is to invent an opposite, barbarism to think of Race you need more than one. The madhouse was built when the Divide was infected by two calamitous notions: Civilisation, and Race. Yet the Divide has value, and the idea sticks. In time exceptions emerged: northwest American hunter-gatherers stayed put, sub-Arctic reindeer herders spend months on the move Scottish farmers burn heather to lure grouse hunter-gatherer style Aborigines used practices associated with farming. So the Divide is also a division between sedentism and mobility. Anchored by their crops, farmers stayed put hunter-gatherers didn’t. ![]() To explain why their society was technologically more complex than others, they came up with what I call the Great Divide - the separation of the world’s peoples into farmers or hunter-gatherers. ![]() Our European ancestors locked us in a madhouse. ![]()
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