The noble Indian idea is a bunch of crap

The noble Indian idea is a bunch of crap

       No wonder so many of our ancestors worked and sacrificed so hard to improve the quality of life we enjoy today. Many died miserable deaths in the process, too.

            Living off the land is not for the timid. It is just hard work with periods of hunger being normal. Growing food to eat "year end and year out" is hard work, and problematical, too. So is hunting for meat if we all do it at the same time. And our ancestors long ago killed off most of the bison and bears for food, too.  How about trudging across snow to use an outhouse as another example. I have and others do it, too.

            Our American Indian ancestors generally did not live to old age as we know old age today. Said another way, their life span was less than what most expect and hope for today.

            In the last decades, it has become popular to glamorize this tough way of life. One of my favorite movies, Dances With Wolves, is one example. I, myself,  prefer a better way of life than what even existed a couple of centuries, ago. This includes our native American ancestors.

            Even some of today's present USA leaders who routinely frequent restaurants glamorize this lifestyle while they can.  What a shame if they have to live like a "noble savage". It will be painful in reality.

            And this idea applies elsewhere, too.  Use the book (about a century old in the vicinity of Vladivostok) by Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev about a local aborigine (Dersu) who lived off the land. Later there was a Japanese movie (by the same person who did the Seven Samurai movie) about the same local fellow, also. There was nothing noble about what this wonderful person Dersu did just to live off this hard scrabble land.