Wannabe Bushcrafter's video: Primitive Meaning

What is primitive meaning? Over the last 2 years I have practiced a lot of primitive bushcraft and primitive living skills. And in that span of time, I learned a few things about what it means to be a primitive. I like to share my observations with everyone today. In the modern world, we get into these routines and patterns that are repeated everyday. It gets to the point where hardly any thought is required to get through the day. So our 5 senses are under utilized. In a primitive's world's, one's senses are fully utilized It's a world of vivid colors, sounds of trees of animals, threats and benefits, smell, touch all fused into a single experience. I sometimes marvel at the beauty of it all. Most modern civilized societies are essentially centralized, hierarchical, caste systems. As a civilized person, we are usually highly specialized in doing a single thing, much of what we need to live comes from the efforts of many other people. If this vast system was somehow disrupted, the average modern, civilized person cannot really survive. A primitive essentially has most of the knowledge needed to construct his culture locked in his head. In the modern world, one feels as if there is no limit to our control of the world world. That man can bend our environment to suit our every whim. For the primitive man, the natural world is unimaginably vast and his ability to shape that world is pitifully limited. The entire technology base of many primitive cultures involve working with pieces of wood that is around 2 inches in diameter. 2 inches is roughly the limit of stone age wood working. So primitive people has this incredible feeling of humbleness and reference towards their natural environment. In a modern society food can be obtained everywhere. This is became plant and animal life can be mass produced, and thus there is a sense of life as being cheap, and somehow disposable. For the primitive man, every animal that he takes, every calorie that he consumes came at tremendous cost. For his life to continue, the life of other living creatures must end. And the exchange of life for life is constantly in front of him. This is a beautiful and precarious balance that primitive peoples are keenly aware of. And thus most hunter-gatherer cultures have this sense of immense gratitude and respect towards the animals and plants that they harvest. Every person has a mental model, a collection of knowledge that defines our understand of how the world works. In a primitive, living completely immersed in the natural world, that mental model is constantly being challenged by reality. In the forest, you may think something is supposed to work in a certain way but nature will very quickly and painfully remind you that your abstraction of reality is not actually the case. This kind of corrective feedback does not really apply to modern people. For you see, A modern city or urban zone is an almost completely artificial, man made environment. This environment is, in many ways, a physical manifestation of the collective mental model of that civilization. People living in this man-made environment is sort of insulated against the corrective negative feedback of nature. For example, incredible amounts of pollution is flushed into the oceans or buried far away. The shocking reduction in biological diversity can be masked by trivial entertainment and feel good marketing. The lash of Injustice and inequity can be silenced by a monopoly on brute force. Here is what I'm trying to get at, the primitive knows very little, but due to the nature of his existence, most of his knowledge is timeless truth, what we might call wisdom. The civilized man knows much, but perhaps most of that knowledge is not truth or wisdom, perhaps most of it is simply an illusion. Creative Commons Stock Videos: Kobe City by Yuu MOSCOW - walks in cityscape by Vitaly Gariev What Is Factory Farming? by Fair Projects