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Originally Posted by meeera
Many of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia were not nomadic, had established villages and long-standing agriculture/aquaculture fields and structures and land management practices. They were grinding grain and baking bread long before anyone in the Middle East or Europe was. They had (and still have) incredibly complex and generationally-transmitted knowledge and stories though oral tradition, songs, dance, and visual art.
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Being geographically isolated perhaps the aboriginals felt less pressure to resort to alternate modes of preserving culture to remain culturally sophisticated. In contrast, many in western society are paradoxially becoming culturally primitive. You can see such modern primitives plugged into devices oblivious of the external world, incapable of critical thinking skills and awash in a dystopian societal sea of sensory overload.
