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by chordalkeyboard 2010 days ago
> It is a misconception that all nomadic or foraging humans had to spend 100% of their time trying to stay alive.

Agreed.

> I'm fact, if you look at African tribes and their original lifestyle you will realize how little time they had to spend on getting food and how much time they were able to spend just being happy, playing, drinking hallucinogenic substances to get into an enlightening trance etc.

Generalizations about foraging populations are fraught with problems because there was a lot of diversity among them and its not possible to study them in a "pure" (untouched by agricultural peoples) setting.