Tribal fighting is different than war. Within the tribes they were self governing and generally much more peaceful. It’s a much better functioning system that aligns with our biology. The problem is how do you prevent tribes/communities/groups from fighting each other and instead collaborate. Native Americans definitely waged tribal warfare, but they also gave us some of the best models of peaceful trading and collaboration across tribal groups. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water and assume that chapter is closed. There’s a lot we need to look back at in our history and reintegrate to build societies that match with our biology.
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I agree there is an incredible amount that we can learn from almost every culture but we don't learn anything by romanticising history.
The idea that Indigenous peoples lived in some perfect harmony with nature is in my opinion a myth it isn't a function of nobility but a function of need a tribe didn't more on from an area solely for the purpose of being in harmony with the land they moved on from an area because food became scarce and could not meet their needs in tribal times when your child starts starving its time to move on.
While the US army is responsible for the final extinction of the buffalo the American Indian had already exterminated it across multiple areas of the states.
The Australian aboriginal was responsible for hunting some of our mega fauna to extinction.
The New Zealand Mouri tribes hunted the giant Moa bird to extinction.
None of these represent harmony or balance.
The idea that these early tribe represent a purity of man and and a nobility we have lost is flawed.
The truth is that in big groups or small men do the terrible things that men do we build hierarchy because its in our blood and government is born from mans nature.
Peaceful trade works while doth side have excess of a necessary resource but fails when there is a vital need from one side what cannot be spared by the other.
Now lets look at most modern democratic governments many of them actually write laws to protect minorities from discrimination, even to give them equal opportunities ca you believe that isn't that amazing a system of government that is meant to represent the will of the majority actually protecting those not the majority.
Some might call this protection of a minority groups a break in the legitimacy of a true democratic government some might even argue that we should disband a government that forces it will upon the majority in such an evil way. I say no system is perfect
I never made any of the claims you are arguing against. Humans have a tendency to take as much as they can, just like every other creature. This is neither good nor bad, it's just biology. I never claimed they lived in "perfect harmony" with nature. There is no such thing as "perfect harmony," but only balance. As human population and technology grow, we become out of balance with an ecosystem and our presence degrades it. In a low tech world this means we simply move on and the land heals, in a high tech world it means we mine the earth, externalize our costs, and transport what we need to subsidize our out of balance existence.
I do not believe in the "noble savage" but I do believe tribal, hunter gatherer peoples exist in a more biologically appropriate structure. When I say "biologically appropriate" I mean that structure is what we evolved to function within. With that said, from my perspective, your points seem just as imbalanced as the "noble savage" ideology, and sound dangerously close to the excuses used to justify the extermination of indigenous people and cultures. There was so much European propaganda during the many colonization campaigns that our history books are still recovering. While there were war like expansion based tribes in the Americas there were many tribes and groups that would fit the "perfect harmony with nature" description. A perfect example would be the Taino people vs. the Carib people of the Caribbean. The Taino were peaceful, by Christopher Columbus' own admission, while the Carib were a warring expansion minded tribe. Overall though, the native American tribes were far more egalitarian than any European society. I know many tribes had slaves, I know they engaged in organized warfare, I know they killed animals to extinction. However, unlike western civilizations, there was massive diversity amongst groups, so we can't make blanket statements to invalidate their existence.
I'm not trying to say that all tribal people were peaceful and lived in tune with nature. What I am saying is these societies were ripe with models that we should learn from and integrate. Lastly, I don't think "no system is perfect" is conducive when trying to critique a system and discover solutions. We aren't trying to find a perfect system, just a better one. And I believe it's good practice to look at all of what's been done, to pick the best of each, design them together, and trial something new.