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Thanks George. I love how your videos always help me consider Dartmoor from a different perspective, while they look so damn great! Your video was a good reminder on the importance of staying connected to our ancestors and their stories. Something I don't think enough about... PS: You spearing technique is about as good as mine 🙂
Thought-provoking, as ever, George, with wonderful filming. Thank you so much. When walking on Dartmoor my mind processes similar thoughts about our ancestors, the rocks and menhirs, as espoused in your piece. But what causes us all to individually share similar thoughts and questions? I'm pretty sure that many people share the same, or similar thoughts. Humans with perception, the love of the natural world, evidently ponder the same things, and come to similar conclusions, even though we have never met. Are we linked by a universal human consciousness, or do we share a cell or gene that pushes us to think and to discover?
Very beautiful and thoughtful as ever George. You seem to drop your videos just when I need something relaxing but engaging, thank you! One note; I believe the ‘overkill’ hypothesis is old hat, and rightly so.
Thank you! I'll definitely look into the criticisms of the overkill hypothesis - my main sources for this were perhaps a little out of date, and I'm just dipping my toes into anthropology which has really captured my interest recently.
None of the experts even the latest ones really know what happened, many of them dig their own heffalump traps in the pursuit of academic ego. Happy Christmas, tiddly pom.@@thedartmoorpodcast
Fascinating, George - must be one of my favorites! Deep and thoughtful topic; always love a philosophical one. I have to agree on what you said about Literature, as I'm some kind of species of my own who process life through poetic mind. Also not to ignore your intriguing skull collection and a glamorous leopard gown! 😉
My mother would agree with you, she believed that literature was everything. I tell myself stories (based on Dartmoor, often including pixies!) to help myself sleep at night. Another great video. Happy New Year to you. :)
Thank you! And yep - very much my go-to place to film if I'm not documenting anything specific. Made use of 'Donkey's Cave' up near Sharpitor for this one.
Good sarcastic Ray Mears pisstake start. You are wrong about the human subspecies disappearing. Go into any pub in Okehampton on a Saturday night and you will find each one well represented. Also, please don't tell me Greggs was invented for creatures with a large brain and even a rudimentary imagination. Happy Christmas.
Beggar me George you deserve a wider audience. Not sure about the idealism re literature art bit. Being able to use abstraction to illustrate or define reality is not necessarily a good thing nor done by good people for good ends. As for evolution, wait until cats make some leap and can drive and type. We'll be finished.
I agree, casual references to Greggs excepted. Or perhaps a deliberate reference to Greggs, suggesting an evolutionary step backwards? If you dig deep enough in Kents Cavern, sooner or later a fossilised sausage roll is bound to appear...
