Is the Human species meant to live like we do?

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No, but we live a lot longer like this than we do in the wild.

>>2914332
it isn't "meant" to live in any particular way dipshit.

>>2914341

We're neither meant to live in cities or suburbs. We're meant to live in small dense settlements of around 150 people. You can easily see this by studying how humans live in pre-state societies, like hunter-gatherers or part-time horticulturalists. We literally can't keep track of more than 150 social relationships in our head.

>>2914332
Yes

>And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

>>2914642

Barf

>>2914626
>pre-state societies
Sound strange.

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>>2914332
Do bees wonder if they are "meant" to live in huge wax hives because some distant ancient ancestor didn't?

Humans determine meaning, therefore if they choose to live a certain way, that is how they are meant to live.

Suffice to say, in terms of population and spread, the current path seems pretty effective - question is, if it can adapt and adjust into sustainability - or if we'll, like the bees, have a massive chain of colony collapses.

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>>2914626
Varg...

>>2914626
>We literally can't keep track of more than 150 social relationships in our head
Each... 150 each. Kinda missing the cascade effect there.

Besides, there are primates that live in groups of tens of thousands, such as baboons, and we have this little thing called communication that doesn't actually require us to have "social" relationships in order to work together, Anon.

>>2915761

That said, humans have long dealt with larger numbers of people now. We've learned to "tune out" the majority of strange faces we see, not really thinking about them as if they are human beings.

We have the free choice to live however we wish, so no, this is just what we chose, hopefully one day we'll choose to make it better.

>>2915818
As opposed to being broken up into tribes of 150, where everyone knows each other "as a human being", but immediately treats any other tribe they meet as inhuman?

It clearly doesn't actually work that way. We don't treat strangers as inhuman, just as humans we don't yet know.

Not that we aren't entirely capable of classifying some set of humans as "the other" and treating them with an entire lack of humanity, but being broken up into tiny social groups doesn't help with that - it indeed, just makes it easier.

>>2914626
300, but still... Give us a couple of tens of thousands of years living in cities and we will feel more comfortable in them

>>2914332

humans are ultimately meant to praise waifus and eat processed fried meat. We are the self reflecting force of the universe meant to drown in its own cum.

>>2914341
Don't be a contrarian shithead. You know what he meant.