This Advice from 1751 Can Help You Be Better Liked Today

It is a privilege to be anti-social.

Let’s go back 10,000 years and check in on humanity. While a few communities around the Fertile Crescent have decided it’s a good idea to stay put and grow plants, most people are free-roaming citizens of nowhere. Humans are a nomadic, pack-based species that travel in groups of roughly 20 to 50, hunting animals and gathering wild food. Summers mean long days hunting and preparing because winters are cold, hungry and dangerous.

The clans, tribes and families roam the landscape, helping each other out. Give Clive a bit of rest; he's broken his toe. Let Erica have a bigger cut of deer; she's just learned she’s pregnant. Everyone helps each other because that is what you do when it is you against the world. In the Neolithic world of yesterday, people often tried to be pro-social.

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