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NATURAL_MISTAKE

                                            May 11, 2012

  Pontificating about what life was like
  in the state of nature, and comparing
  it to our present elevated or enervated
  state is a time-honored practice of
  wonky intellectual thought-- it's
  really too bad we haven't gotten better
  at it by now.

      Wouldn't you think it would be
      standard practice to stop and
      think things like "could it be
      that my view of nature is
      excessively romanticized?"

      Or alternately "Am I mistaking
      pessimism for 'being realistic'?"

      Or even: "Are there other
      interpretations that would
      also cover what data I have?"

      Or even: "Do I *have* any data?"



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