Mulliga has found an amusing little film concerning the atlatl, the dart thrower that Stone Age people use to harvest game.
The only person in the short film is a career academic, and he is pretty good until the last minute or so. That is when the hippie just can't resist slathering on the social commentary.
"The bow and arrow is associated with agriculture, and the rise of organized religion, taxes, everything we hate about modern life"!
Organized religion is something we hate about modern life? We hate agriculture??? Sure, if you are a hippie...
Some might say that I'm being too hard on ol' Bob. After all, his bio says that he is a former Marine! But I also note that it admits he got into trouble when he tried to trade rifles for drugs while still in uniform, and his domestic partner runs an "organic herbal supply company".
Another indication of the hippie disease is how they will jack up the price of hand made crafts for the suckers while still complaining about modern life, mainly because living a "sustainable lifestyle" costs an arm and a leg. ("I'll barter 30 dead squirrels from my back yard for an atlatl, all of them preserved the traditional way by being dumped in a bucket of salt for a month without the benefit of evil modern conveniences like refrigeration. What? You want cash?") Take a gander at the price list for Bob's atlatls.
I say hippie.
Comments (3)
Anyone who refers to his wife as his "partner" is a hippie.
That guy sure does look used up. He's three years younger than I am, but he looks ten years older.
Posted by Steven Den Beste | April 27, 2008 11:35 AM
Posted on April 27, 2008 11:35
I say retard. Simply another luddite that longs for a pre-industrial era, and intwines spiritualism with physics. The bow replaced the atlatl because it is more powerful and accurate, kind of like how firearms replaced bows.
Posted by mostlygenius | April 28, 2008 5:29 AM
Posted on April 28, 2008 05:29
Doesn't this moron understand that $200 for something a caveman can do is extremely stupid?
Gah!
Posted by RickR | April 28, 2008 8:50 AM
Posted on April 28, 2008 08:50