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Caves
A prehistoric throwback yes, but caves offer plenty of accommodations and advantages. For one, there is little to no architectural drafting or construction involved. The only challenge in obtaining a cave for a home is actually finding one. Yet, minus the hassle of brokers, real estate agents, Craigslist postings, and urban overcrowding, moving was likely to be much more stress free for Neanderthals. Which brings up another bonus of cave-living: rent free. Archaeologists have yet to uncover the remains of landlords dating before 10,000 B.C. Lastly, to live in a cave is to live in a pile. Like a child's elaborate fort of sheets, blankets, and pillow cases, one can only imagine the excitement of inhabiting such an organic and mysterious setting. |
Yet as nature's dormitories, these homes within piles are a little too perfect for defeating capitalism. That is, all current things considered, caves represent a non-capitalist tendency too extremist for practical benefits. Opposing capitalism might be a good idea, but only to a certain extent. For one can not truly oppose capitalism with extremism, because extremism as an ideology itself is a product of capitalism. Any extremist is in this sense capitalistic. (For further understanding concerning the danger of polar beliefs take an intermission.)
To exemplify, consider the lives of those commonly associated as cave inhabitants today; Islamic extremists turned terrorists. It is not irony that the people most actively (as far as violence is concerned) trying to impair the expansion of capitalistic |
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