Is he a good representation of our ancestor living in modern society or a hairy anger management case?

I haven't seen him. But in general people who live in Mesolithic societies are not nearly as alienated from one another as we are. After all, they know everybody in the tribe personally and most of them are blood relatives. By our standards their communities are giant extended families, not neighborhoods.

So if you're talking about true rage, that's not something we associate with "cavemen." They probably got along fairly well because they had to.

I'm not sure there are any Mesolithic people left to study. (Nomadic hunter-gatherers making temporary seasonal settlements in caves or portable tents.) But we've had plenty of opportunity to observe Neolithic tribes. (Permanent farming or fishing villages but nothing close to a city in size or culture.) And I've seen nothing to indicate that anger of un"manage"able intensity is a common phenomenon even among those people, who are not as tightly connected as their ancestors.

I heard that back in those days all you had to do to bed an unknown woman was to hit her on the head to render her unconcious and then rape her- it was the normal practice.

Oh, I thought you were talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOZzY3ejc68

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I think that the cavemen in the geico commercial are a bit more like what it would really be like.

and did anyone know that geico stands for goverment employee insurance company? i sure didn't until i read it in the fine print of an ad above a urnial at the white sox stadium

did anyone know that geico stands for goverment employees insurance company?Yes, Geico started out during the Depression, setting up their offices outside military bases. They were the enlisted man's alternative to USAA, which marketed to officers. As the government got exponentially larger during the New Deal with all of the unconstitutional power it seized, and all of the money it raised with unconstitutional taxes and unconstitutional deficit spending, Geico had an instant market among all the newly hatched civil servants. It was cherry-picking, because government workers are statistically far lower-risk drivers than the general public. Especially military people, whose cars spend a lot of time not being driven.

After the Korean War they began timidly branching out and cherry picking the rest of the market--college students (how times have changed!), professors, etc. Eventually they created multiple levels of companies so if you're not good enough for the original Geico you can buy one of their more expensive brands.

Geico was one of Warren Buffett's first loves, he started buying their stock when he was in college. In the 1990s when the company hit hard times he correctly diagnosed the problem as bad management rather than bad business, and bought it and pumped it up with his bottomless cash reserves until it recovered. It became "Geico Direct," with essentially no local offices. They sell primarily by direct mail, TV and radio ads, and cold-calling. Their expenses are minimal that way so they easily undersell the competition.