We can just look to indigenous cultures for this. They’ve been doing it for tens of thousands of years before being colonized. Like, indigenous Australian cultures sustained themselves for 60k-100k years without ruining their environment while also living in commune-type societies. Native North/South Americans did it too. We can hand off our kids to untouched/minimally touched cultures to learn how to relate to the environment and each other. There will always be human conflict. It’s how we handle that conflict that we need to learn again, and how to appropriately handle conflict needs to be retaught by those who know how to do it.
Very true, though I’m more interested in how a completely new culture would develop. There’s absolutely no way I can think of that would allow the children to be completely unaffected by existing adults since they can’t exactly feed themselves, but I really wonder what would happen.
We can just look to indigenous cultures for this. They’ve been doing it for tens of thousands of years before being colonized. Like, indigenous Australian cultures sustained themselves for 60k-100k years without ruining their environment while also living in commune-type societies. Native North/South Americans did it too. We can hand off our kids to untouched/minimally touched cultures to learn how to relate to the environment and each other. There will always be human conflict. It’s how we handle that conflict that we need to learn again, and how to appropriately handle conflict needs to be retaught by those who know how to do it.
Very true, though I’m more interested in how a completely new culture would develop. There’s absolutely no way I can think of that would allow the children to be completely unaffected by existing adults since they can’t exactly feed themselves, but I really wonder what would happen.
It’s an interesting thought experiment!