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By Kyle | December 26, 2012
In “The World Until Yesterday,” Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond argues that we have a lot to learn from “traditional,” i.e. primitive, cultures. Is he right? More in my Sunday column.
Topics: Books |
December 27th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
I could never take Diamond seriously with the sculpted Amish beard…
January 1st, 2013 at 7:46 am
Agriculture has its downside, true. It means that there are now, as Diamond says, “people who will not go out and gather their own food but will instead devote themselves full time to being tax collectors and priests and professional soldiers and senators and other parasites upon society.” His list is accurate. But why not keep agriculture, and just cut back on senators?