Pre-Saharasian period of peaceful "garden" conditions was real, with human violence appearing only with long-term epochs of drought-famine-starvation-migration, and then sometimes disappearing generations later after rains returned.

Once re-created by new patrist institutions, armoring and violence are then independent of desert-geography or nutrition! It can then be carried out of the desert by the new warrior-nomads, who conquer, kill and enslave other cultures, and transplant their social institutions into new territories.

For mechanistic pathology, functional illnesses are “imaginary” illnesses. When the mechanistic physician cannot ascertain any alteration in the chemical composition of the blood or in the structure of the tissues, he cannot diagnose an illness, even if the patient actually dies. The functionally oriented physician, the orgone therapist, knows about the bodily function of the emotions. He understands how and why one can “die of grief.” For grief is functionally identical with the shrinking of the autonomic nervous system, a protracted shock, as it were. For him, “functional fever” is not a figment of the imagination but a real, biophysically interpretable excitation of the biosystem.