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>squalor and sufferering

See now you're just regurgitating tired old tropes. Reliable anthropology has pretty much debunked these topes, but they get repeated because they serves a psychological purpose.

"The Pirahãs show no evidence of depression, chronic fatigue, extreme anxiety, panic attacks, or other psychological ailments common in many industrialized societies." …

"I have never heard a Pirahã say that he or she is worried. In fact, so far as I can tell, the Pirahãs have no word for worry in their language. One group of visitors to the Pirahãs, psychologists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Brain and Cognitive Science Department, commented that the Pirahãs appeared to be the happiest people they had ever seen."

-Daniel Everett, "Don't Sleep There Are Snakes" (2009) p. 278

Here we found a few Snake Indians comprising 6 men 7 women and 8 or
10 children who were the only Inhabitants of this lonely and secluded spot.
They were all neatly clothed in dressed deer and Sheep skins of the best
quality and seemed to be perfectly contented and happy. …I almost wished
I could spend the remainder of my days in a place like this where happiness
and contentment seemed to reign in wild romantic splendor….

-Osborne Russell, "Journal of a Trapper" (1965) pp. 26-27

The Mbuti "were a people
who had found in the forest something that made their life more than
just worth living, something that made it, with all its hardships and problems
and tragedies, a wonderful thing full of joy and happiness and free
of care.”

-Colin Turnbull "Forest People" (1962) p. 26

"Thus the pygmies stand before us as one of the most natural of human
races, as people who live exclusively in accord with nature and without any
violation of their organism. In this they show an unusually sturdy naturalness
and heartiness, an unparalleled cheerfulness and freedom from care."

-Paul Schebesta, Bambuti-Pygmäen vom Ituri (1938) p. 73

one could go on and on...

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