The Effect of Machetes and Axes on the Nature of Western Industrial Culture

It depends on what kind of item you're introducing to their culture. If you introduce a shotgun, yeah. That has a profound effect on how villages get along with each other. Probably machete's didn't change the nature of their warfare except in the sense that it made gardening more efficient and therefore villages could get larger. And their warfare, in fact, is best... One dimension of their warfare is the number of people who are involved in it. In the old days, they have to have the whole family ... They can put it all under the machete and an axe and they can't move it on the tool. It was less cooperation.