Generally violence is a result of scarcity. There were plenty of groups that were near to pacifist, and others very violent. Generally, in the Paleolithic Era people were sparse enough to rarely come into conflict and violent conflict carried a high risk to the group. Lose more than a few people, and the whole tribe…

Take any anthro class. You'll cover it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-ga…

Anarchy doesn't propose "going back to zero"; some primitivists do, anarchist or not. It proposes a kind of socialist direct democracy, without career elected leaders, economic classes or large national states organized in federations of voluntary collectives.

Also, if you wiki hunters-gatherers or "The Original…

Most of what he's said you can find in an into to anthro textbook. It's not really controversial material but the general anthropological consensus- just contrary to general perception; which is largely cultural propaganda.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-l…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-ga…

When…

Speaking in general trends, he's correct about lack of hierarchy and equality; there are always outliers.

I'm sure others have probably said it: but you'd be fine and probably live into your 70's. The low death rates are median, not modal, factoring in infant mortality.

Indigenous, primitive societies tend to have far lower rates of violence, theft and violence towards women than developed western societies. Think of it…

In most anthro textbooks. It contradicts "common knowledge", because a lot of "common knowledge" is really just a form of cultural propaganda.

Well, maybe if we could get some of the trillion dollars that went into rebuilding Iraq after we blew it up, or the three billion going to Israel we could do better. But we have the population of a small city scattered over an area big enough to fit Manhattan, SF and Chicago in at the same time - a huge percent live…

Yep. Io9 seems to have never taken an entry level Environmental Sciences/Economics class. We're destroying the biosphere, degrading natural capital at an alarming rate, wasting precious resources because we're able to ignore the short term effects of the externalities. .

I'm all for futurism, but I prefer mine to be…

I was, actually, but that's not how those happened.
I'm old now, I just argue with people online.

Yeah, I don't think testes are "special" outside that they are sex organs. I'm pretty sure a woman getting punched straight in the ovaries would probably be similar, there's just more "cushion". The labia probably has a similar kind of nerve system as testes.

I left out the half inch chunk of jaw bone I lost too :)

I don't skateboard anymore.

I was hit so hard that one testicle became swollen and I couldn't walk for a week.

I wouldn't. The cops around here remind me more of the mafia :/
They stole everything I own in an off the books raid once (given, I was being an asshole to my neighbors with loud parties, I was like 18).
I know a few ex dealers with rap sheets who moved on and get shaken down and threatened with plants.
A drunk driver…

Immigration =/= Displacement. Gentrification = Displacement.

I'm from Detroit, we have a similar issue. There are masses of "hip" white twenty-somethings moving to one or two neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods get trendy restaurants and wholefoods, police protection. The people who spent decades investing in that…

Why are they even arresting someone for selling a lose cigarette? Just write the guy a ticket. It's a minor quality of life/retail tax crime. Police officers have latitude for discretion. By all accounts, the guy was a helpful member of society and helped keep the peace - he had just broken up a fight.

Police need to…

I rode in convoys in IQ less geared out than these guys. I'm from those same neighborhoods in Detroit, and I get what it's like - but you already have a massively corrupt police force (you realize that, right?) who the public doesn't trust. This kind of presence is only going to make things worse. In war the first…

For real. I was a contractor in IQ and I watched soldiers run convoys less geared up than these cops. Under trained civilians on a power trip playing soldier. Disgusting.

Wait, Bundy stealing over a million dollars worth of grazing for over a decade doesn't count as property crime?

Shooting An Elephant is a great story, and what turned me on to Orwell as a kid. Going by the strong admiration for Anarchism he expressed in Homage To Catalonia, I'd say he'd care quite a bit.

"I have no particular love for the idealized 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an…