Culture

Conversations with Cavemen

Why modern life doesn’t make us happy.

A cave on Easter Island, 2015. Photo by Michelle Teheux

I like to imagine the conversations I’d have with a hypothetical caveman (well, cavepeople, but I don’t know how progressive those folks were) or with an alien interested in understanding Earth life. I also like to think of the conversations I’d have with whoever was the lady of the house when my home was first…