17 April 2009

I Realized Something

Tyler Durden says, "In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway."

In the lifestyle he's describing, he's right, leather clothes will last you the rest of your life. Not because leather clothing is so much more durable than cloth, but because the average lifespan in a hunter-gatherer society is 35. For a sufficiently short lifespan, pink taffeta could last a lifetime.

Oh, the American Indian replaced his clothing annually, or more often.

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