A Blueprint For Disaster In Any Society

Why Is It That You White People Developed So Much Cargo And Brought It To New Guinea, But We Black People Had Little Cargo Of Our Own?

I'd Rather Spend My Leisure Time Doing What Some People Call My Work And I Call My Fun.

[t]he Values To Which People Cling Most Stubbornly Under Inappropriate Conditions Are Those Values That Were Previously The Source Of Their Greatest Triumphs.

Recent Discoveries About Apes Suggest, However, That A Gorilla Or Common Chimp Stands At Least As Good A Chance Being Murdered As The Average Human.

But This Was The Only Way Of Life That Humans Knew For Their First 6m Years On The Planet. In Giving It Up Over The Past Few Thousand Years, We Have Lost Our Vulnerability To Disease And Cold And Wild Animals, But We Have Also Lost Good Ways To Bring Up Children, Look After Old People, Stave Off Diabetes And Heart Disease And Understand The Real Dangers Of Everyday Life.