What circumstances might lead an extremely advanced civilization to willingly adopt an effectively hunter-gatherer lifestyle? How would their existence look?
What circumstances might lead an extremely advanced civilization to willingly adopt an effectively hunter-gatherer...
Samuel Gray
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Bentley Miller
They are unable to grow their own produce because an outside force keeps on destroying their fields or has made the soil unable to maintain a steady source of food
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Austin Powell
What happens in Blame?
Charles King
Look up the Night Elves from Warcraft.
Camden Ross
Aren’t they just a Bronze Age culture?
Christopher Powell
Humanity becomes super advanced in technology to the point where they can automate everything with a super AI, but they forgot their damn password and now the AI is trying to kill them. Humans have also built layers upon layers on the earth to the point that a moon sized room could fit in it. Anyways, it’s up to this edgy cyborg dude with a pocket Death Star to save humanity. I’ve only seen the anime and read some of the wiki though
Henry Sanchez
They're essentially Amazon Warriors that worship the Moon and Nature. They're Thousands of years old, magically powerful and all that jazz.
Outside forces leave them with no other choice. Perhaps some plague renders their lands barren and food cannot be grown or cultivated. Is this a sci fi game or fantasy?
Colton Rodriguez
Think about it. There are modern Western people nowadays willingly living in the woods like hicks because they 'want to go back to nature'. So, have it that the civilization is essentially LARPing long term as hunter gatherers but have advanced tech literally hidden underground. These tech can heal or revive people, fix ecological damage and repopulate animals and plants. It can even create 'Gods' and 'magic'.
Connor Morris
Unironically go pick GURPS Infinite Worlds and read up. There are two flavours of it in it:
- alternative worlds where this developed on own accord due to reasons (ancient civ surviving long enough, post-apo civ adopting new model, etc)
- "druid worlds", which are empty planets colonized by all sort of weirdos from Homeline: neo-druidic cults, Amish, hippies, eco-centric groups etc. The idea is that they have all the know-how of Homeline (so slightly above modern tech), but actively live on chosen tech-level, keeping all the high tech stuff for emergencies and alike.
Parker King
>gods
>with an uppercase G
Really activates the autism
Jonathan Price
So... Poul Anderson's Maurai?
Connor Cruz
They took the Vargpill
Jackson Campbell
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Jackson James
Fates Worse Than Death (a cyberpunk game) has the Neoculturals, or "Neos": insular, largely self-sufficient communities (like most communities in the setting, it's a very strange kind of cyberpunk) which deliberately embrace the aesthetics, values and parts of the lifestyle of a certain pre-industrial culture while.
What's unusual about this is that they didn't just revert to primtivism out of necessity, nor do they reject all modern technology on principle: the Neoculturals were created by like-minded people who voluntarily decided, in a sort of mix-and-match, grab bag fashion, which parts of their emulated culture they thought should be adopted and which parts of modern living were worth keeping or discarding.
e.g. a particular Neocultural might decide to keep using modern medicine, but deliberately not include modern day entertainment because they believe traditional entertainment builds a stronger sense of community. Another one might be able to afford to grow all their food in automated aquaponics but deliberately avoid doing so because they believe old-school farming (or even hunting and gathering) builds character, etc.
Brayden Evans
>alues and parts of the lifestyle of a certain pre-industrial culture while.
It was "while continuing to take advantage of handpicked elements of modern day living." I accidentally left that one out deleting the beginning of the next line.
Tyler White
>they have all conveniences of modern life
>it's a post-apoc world and the only way to keep these conveniences running is to scavenge the ruins for replacement parts and raw materials
David White
-Monsanto's brand policy on seeds
-Global warming fucking up plant growth
-Toxic atmosphere kills plantlife
-Population drastically reduced so we dont need too much food and prefer to get it this way
Cooper Torres
This seems to me the most realistic scenario after some kind of apocalyptic event (in which case it's arguable whether the civilization can still be called "extremely advanced" and whether the lifestyle was adopted "willingly").
It's just a philosophy/lifestyle kind of thing. People got tired of living in cities or otherwise got the idea that there's some kind of spiritual meaning to living like a caveman, so they decided to try it out. Their technology is so advanced (and ubiquitous, and unobtrusive) that they don't face any actual hardship and might even still enjoy modern comforts, but get to tell themselves they're living "the way nature intended".
Jordan Hall
Nanobot magic makes everyone immortal and immune to disease and a bunch of other stuff like that, so some become hunter-gatherers since society's usefulness has declined as it's no longer needed for protection against discomfort or danger, and faced with thousands of years of life they decide they'd rather live one day at a time, surrounded by beautiful nature.
Jordan Nguyen
Isn’t that the shtick of one of the factions in Cyberpunk 203X?
Ian King
I haven't the faintest.
Hunter Nelson
Man, that setting was like a study in unfortunate mistakes. They had like 5-6 different idea which were each individually awesome, but instead of realizing them, they mashed them all together into one setting that ended up being internally inconsistent, nonsensical, hilariously unbalanced, boring and directionless. Sometimes less is more.
That's right, they were called Rolling State. Sorta neo-Native Americans with nanoaugmentations who drove around the Midwest in hugeass mobile cities harvesting scraps from WWIII and stuff like that, and occasionally sent out parties in smaller vehicles. Everything they made was aesthetically/culturally native American, but it was all actually made out of nanomaterials and shit.
Anthony Scott
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>a bunch of parallel worlds opened, with easy travel between them
>the only rule of said travel - nothing iron or steel can pass through dimensions
>because of this in each successive world industry has to start anew
>most travellers just said "fuck it" and established thriving pre-industrial communities
>others became nomadic hunter-gatherers
Leo Sanders
Nanoforges basically turn production into minecraft where you just have to shove matter into the input hopper for raw materials and download designs for anything from new food to weapons or a new nanoforge, etc from a wiki-type database. Any one individual can be entirely self-sustaining, however the more people live near you, the more dangerous it is because there's nothing stopping potential jihadists or mass shooters from mass-producing attack drones.
Zachary Anderson
Nolan Cox
That is such an unrealistic view of nanotechnology I think Erich Drexler would deride it as magic.
Cameron Watson
So is it by Baxter or Pratchett?
Luis Wright
Well, one guy thought that, once every need was taken care, since most social interaction is based on some form of necessity, you would end up with the most sensitive motherfuckers imaginable. To avoid this, from the ages of like, 18-23, they had to go live as ancient humans did, to make them be less like massive cunts.
Benjamin Allen
That doesn't sound like such a bad idea, imho.