(February 19, 2016 at 2:54 am)Alex K Wrote: Jared Diamond, in "Guns, Germs and Steel", at one point argues that settling down and doing agriculture might seem obviously superior to us in hindsight, but that it needn't always have been an immediate advantage to early homo sap. Also, the right package of crops needs to arise for an agricultural society to really take off, and the wild forms suitable for domestication did not grow everywhere. It's long ago that I read it though, you should pick it up -it's a shlep to read at times because it contains so much info, but it is very interesting.Thanks for the suggestion.
But, man, if I could read that I would. And I could easily say i'm going to check it out, but that would be superficial. Truth is over the summer I checked out about 10 physics/cosmology/space books each over 250+ pages long with high hopes of reading them all. You know how many I read? 0. I read only about 200 pages of the first one. When it comes to reading, i'm just so god damn lazy. I can read on the internet just fine, something about holding a book however, spikes up my ADD and makes me think I cannot stand another page, even though I enjoy what i'm reading.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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