Yeah that's what I was thinking. Functionally, humans haven't
   changed. For all the fancy tools we make and all the systems of
   thinking we come up with... we're still the same humans that we
   were 100,000 years ago, subject to the same amazing capabilities
   and the same limitations as well. I don't think the environment
   was simpler though. The detailed knowledge required to survive
   required intimate knowledge of hundreds of plants, animals, each
   other. We started making sharp objects to cut with VERY early
   on, carving out reality with differentiations right from the
   beginning. Recording for those that come after we die has made
   all the difference, and societies to pass on the methodology to
   interpret the various recordings. But still, each of us start
   off as babies, counting our fingers and toes. Simple (life) in
   the sense that isolated small towns are simpler than large
   cities. Ah, I gotcha. The sentiment of simple life. I think we
   100,000 yr old humans survive in large cities because of
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_inattention - without which,
   we'd have autistic-style meltdowns on an ongoing basis. I grew
   up watching English and American mysteries with my mother and I
   read Steven King novels as a teenager. So when I think of
   isolated small towns, I think of Bangor, Maine with ghosts,
   monsters and spooky things and people in each other's business,
   and also think of fictional Cabot Cove, Maine, where white
   people get murdered every week, and nobody remembers
   ANYTHING.... and everybody is in each other's business. If
   Murder, She Wrote was made with black people, the show would've
   had a different character altogether. Far more action-packed and
   exciting I should think. [yes, I'm playing on white vs black
   stereotypes as portrayed on media] It also might be why I've
   never been to Maine. [I wasn't being mean by calling it
   sentiment by the way: close-knit societies are quite complicated
   things is all I was saying. I react similarly to notions of
   Noble Savage and such... or modern attempts to go "back to
   nature"... with... the Internet connection intact. Nothing wrong
   with the best-of-both-worlds, but historians often over-simplify
   the past for our benefit I think and we carry those assumptions
   with us.. just my opinion though ] 10 hrs * Like * 1