Innocence lost / innovations = bad

[Daniel Julius]

On Jan 6, 2008 1:55 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> There's no question that agriculture led to disease (humans migrated to
> the Americas before agriculture developed, which is why there were no
> venereal, etc. diseases here until the Europeans brought them).



I just wanted to say -- and I think it upholds the gently optimistic tone of
the end of this article -- that it was this exposure to disease and plague
which also, in turn, brought about our immunity to certain diseases and
plagues.  You are 100% right about the, uh, "Virgin Soil" germ theory RE:
the new world and spread of body rot, and I just think that we could
benefit from looking at that as a general, progressive strenghtening of our
human bodies, albeit w/ certain atrocious losses along the way.  What an
incredible balance that is, geez

At any rate, you made my morning, Jill, thank you; I needed something like
that to dive in to

--
Dan
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