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Ironically, the noble savage archetype is itself a racist stereotype that never existed. There was this idea that just before written history, just outside of the range of any of us being able to verify it, all the things that social reformers hate didn't exist, and they are only the outcome of capitalism or patriarchy or whatever they want to get rid of.

Myself, I end up looking to other primates to test that theory, and it just doesn't come out true. There are pre hominid primates with essentially a nuclear family structure. There are pre hominid primates that engage in war for territory. There are tons of pre hominid primates that engage in a sort of patriarchy. So unless all of these pre hominid primates inherited their ways of living from humans on another continent, it seems very unlikely that these we're human inventions that only showed up the moment that we were able to write down what we were doing.