Thus The Guardian today. “Does modern life make us happy?” asks the newspaper. “We have gained much but we have lost a great deal, too. Are humans better suited to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle?” The article offers loads of inane questions of this sort. And no answers, of course. How could we possibly gauge happiness across tens of thousands of years? Indeed, how can we gauge happiness across the planet at this very instant? Are humans in the Amazon forests happier than those in the suburbs of Toronto? The article offers next to nothing on the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, either. Humans have lived as hunter-gatherers much longer than as anything else, and that is why they can be expected to be better suited for such a lifestyle than any other. After all, quite a number of humans still live as hunter-gatherers at this very instant. But the greatest disappointment with the article is that it does not offer even a hint that humans will be returning to the Stone Age willy-nilly. What with climate change and the upcoming glaciation, there is no other way than back. In other words, humans will soon address the inane questions presented by the article in most practical terms. The best we can say in advance is that everything will in all likelihood be hunky-dory precisely because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle suits humans best on account of their long experience with it. All other speculations are for the birds.