NationStates Jolt Archive


The Noble Savage

Drunk commies deleted
13-05-2006, 17:21
Man I wish our society was more like neolithic society. People really knew how to treat each other back then. Nowadays interpersonal conflict resolution is just so complicated and so horribly influenced by our patriarchal society.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025514.900-muggings-were-rife-in-new-stone-age.html

Back then you just solved your differences by bashing someone on the head and keeping his ears as trophies. there is some evidence that ears were chopped off
Ifreann
13-05-2006, 17:45
Getting a girl was a lot easier back then too. There's something to be said for rendering someone unconscious as a chat up line.
Ladamesansmerci
13-05-2006, 18:03
What? The article says nothing about cutting someone's head off and putting it on a stick as a worship to beasts? I'm disappointed.
Mikesburg
13-05-2006, 23:31
Well this is clearly what Stonehenge was all about; neolithic gladitorial combat, with ears as trophies. Time to re-open the stadium.
The South Islands
13-05-2006, 23:33
Well this is clearly what Stonehenge was all about; neolithic gladitorial combat, with ears as trophies. Time to re-open the stadium.

Sign me up for season tickets!
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
13-05-2006, 23:38
Sign me up for season tickets!
Actually, I think I've already signed you up to enter the arena. See, I had these gambling debts, and they said all would be forgiven if I just, kinda, you know . . .
Helped them kidnap you. Now, can you take a whiff of this rag and tell me what its covered in? Its either chloroform or mucus, I can't remember.
Mikesburg
13-05-2006, 23:40
Actually, I think I've already signed you up to enter the arena. See, I had these gambling debts, and they said all would be forgiven if I just, kinda, you know . . .
Helped them kidnap you. Now, can you take a whiff of this rag and tell me what its covered in? Its either chloroform or mucus, I can't remember.

The first rule of Neolithic Fight Club is, you don't talk about Neolithic Fight Club.
Kzord
13-05-2006, 23:43
But they didn't have aristocracy in the stone age...
Vittos Ordination2
13-05-2006, 23:49
They really needed some club and axe control laws.
Santa Barbara
13-05-2006, 23:54
They really needed some club and axe control laws.

Club not kill caveman. Caveman kill caveman!

And.... separation of Shaman and Chief!
Mikesburg
14-05-2006, 00:07
They really needed some club and axe control laws.

What? And punish all the law-abiding club and axe owners? I will not support this 'axe and club control' boondoggle! Give our police BIGGER axes or clubs, to take out anyone who would use their axe or club illegally.
ConscribedComradeship
14-05-2006, 00:08
Man I wish our society was more like neolithic society. People really knew how to treat each other back then. Nowadays interpersonal conflict resolution is just so complicated and so horribly influenced by our patriarchal society.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025514.900-muggings-were-rife-in-new-stone-age.html

Back then you just solved your differences by bashing someone on the head and keeping his ears as trophies.

That "there is some evidence that ears were chopped off" quote was just priceless.
Bodies Without Organs
14-05-2006, 00:10
The first rule of Neolithic Fight Club is, you don't talk about Neolithic Fight Club.

The second rule of Neolithic Fight Club is: You do not talk abo... wait a minute, I've got that wrong... the second rule is: no smoking
New Granada
14-05-2006, 00:43
Its true, now we have these evil states and the associated Philosophy of Evil, Statism, corrupting us and causing us to be violent.

Back then, people treated eachother well because they didnt have a state telling them what to do!
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
14-05-2006, 00:57
Its true, now we have these evil states and the associated Philosophy of Evil, Statism, corrupting us and causing us to be violent.

Back then, people treated eachother well because they didnt have a state telling them what to do!
At the time, they had tribes to tell them what to do and control their lives, with the associated tribeism corrupting them and making them violent. The fact that groups make people stupid and violent has never changed, just the names of the groups with which the stupidity and violence are associated.