Originally posted by Only-now
Ah yes..the glorification of the barbarian life-style! Not that those people are wrong, or "savages"...but I see the trend of "let's go back to how it was...it was so great!" idea a lot now. That lifestyle is definately not superior to the modern world's way of living. Of course it has some advantages...but I would be willing to bet it has a lot more disadvantages.
Barbarian life-style?...What are you talking about?

There are advantages and disadvantages to every culture and society. For instance our modern culture has the ability to expand our life-span due to our advance medical knowledge and all...but another culture may have a more advanced lineage system thus making orphans non-existent and the rearing of children much easier.

In fact, if you look at many tribal cultures, you will find that they are affluent societies where people enjoy the lifestyle. Many people tend to have a view of such cultures as being a very hard life to live...when in fact many people in such cultures don't have to work nearly as much as we do to earn a living and have very rich social lives and enjoy numerous activities within their communities.

A better argument would be to say *Well yes, those people live well and respect earth a heck of a lot more than most "civilised" people do now, but would we really want to give up the technology we have gained over a thousand years or more? (ignoring comparably useless iPods etc, more like computers, modern medicine etc)*
Actually, that is not really true. Throughout the history of modern man (from the time tribal cultures dominated the earth to today) people have created trash and used up resources. It's only a lot more noticeable today because instead of millions to a few hundred million people doing it, you have billions...