Big Cities are Now Dangerous Jungles PaleoJays Smoothie Cafe

Sad but true!  I want for you to go out into nature each and every day that you can, to immerse yourself into that environment from which we evolved, and to which we are ultimately best suited.  To go out into the woods, to enjoy the solitude, and breeze ruffling your hair, while you traverse the natural ground as humans have done for millenia uncounted- this is to restore, to recharge both our minds, bodies and spirits.  It is a kind of ‘reboot’ of our modern, hectic lives back into our natural, true selves.

But, I would never recommend you thrust yourself into a dangerous jungle, if you are not familiar with it, and if you are unequipped to deal with the life threatening peril that lurks within.  This would be the height of folly, unless you were carrying effective weaponry, and had a mission to accomplish that necessitated such a venture.

Sadly now, however, the very bastions of Western culture and civilization, the large cities of America and Europe, have devolved into jungles where your safety is not only at risk, these places have become the hunting grounds of feral humans not of your tribe!

I really do wish we lived in a world where we could be assured of safety within the civilization and cities that our ancestors built and bequeather to us.  For a long period of time, we did.  Police forces arrested criminals, violence was quickly stopped and taken off of the streets, and the perpetrators were punished.  Everything worked very well indeed.  It should be a large part of our civilization to protect each citizen from predation by violent, evil people.  And it was a given, for generations.

Now, our major cities are flooded with migrants not of our own tribe.  This is crucial to understanding, for these people are not of our culture and evolution, but are from alien landscapes and culture; they are people that build and live in cultures and environments that we would be horrified of living in, and totally alien to us and our own European tribe.

Our peoples are from a high trust society.  We had to be; we needed to work together as a tribe to survive the harsh landscape in which we evolved.  Things like theft and other crimes were dealt with severely, as such crimes could threaten the survival of the very tribe itself over a winter period for which planning and strict rationing were necessary.  

Peoples from sun-soaked climes of easy (or no) winters did not evolve this way, and so theft and other crimes were actually a way of life for many.  It was not that important, overall, since food was always available, year round.  Also, children were plentiful, and the sheer numbers of offspring was seen as important, rather than the careful nurturing and education and training of a few precious youngsters.  Education and inculcating each member of such a northern tribes person with his or her duties was paramount for survival.

Not only that, but women and girls were treated over time as far more like equals in the tribe with men and boys, since everyones role was important.  In southern, warm lands, a strong warlord could dominate multiple wives, as property, since their contribution to the tribe was simply that of procreation and labor.  Their minds did not interest those warlords, or their male underlings.  Power and aggression mattered here in these ancient jungles, savannahs and plains- not cooperation and mutual dependence.

And so, the intelligence development of these southern tribespeople lagged, as fleetness of foot and a propensity for quick violence were far more important in their ancient evolutionary environments.  But in the harsh north, codependency and trust were necessary to survive and thrive and simply stay alive long term.  Intelligence was very useful in this environment, and was selected for time after time in this environments survival of the fi
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