And Here We Are 15. New World Order 16. The Cosmic Context 18. Why Life Is So Complex 20. Non-crazy Questions 22.
All thought draws life from contacts and exchanges.
Explaining the affluence of the Northwest Coast Indians seems simple at first. They lived amid natural abundance. And abundance, after all, is affluence. Presumably that's why so many of the affluent hunter-gatherer societies recently discerned by archaeologists lived near large bodies of water. If you want to be rich, settle on rich land.