Brad's view on Diamond's view

I believe that Jared Diamond brings important recognition to opinions about agriculture that do not always receive attention. While a few of his points are somewhat extreme, they are all insightful and well backed with evidence. The point of his that concerns/interests me the most, is his entirely negative take on agriculture, and his belief that it has hindered human progression, and at times, made life worse than it had to be. He argues that health problems and poor diets became widely common in agrarian communities because their food carried diseases that the human body was unfamiliar with, and unable to defend from. While he is right that agriculture occasionally made life unnecessarily problematic, when looking back over the thousands of years between now and then and the distance humans have come in all aspects of life; politics, economics, and society, that issue was minuscule, and as far as I am concerned, has not hampered the improvement of humanity. I believe that Diamond misses an important aspect of agriculture, and that is human unity, a common consensus in communities. Agriculture taught people how to work together, how to function as a unit to accomplish a task that benefited everyone in the community. While Diamond brings about strong points against agriculture, I must ask him, where would we be without it?