The Reductio Ad Absurdum

If we insist on defining all human interactions as matters of people giving one thing for another, then any ongoing human relations only take the form of debts. A world without debt would revert to primordial chaos, says Pantagruel. The tidy world of shops and mauls is the quintessential mddle class environment. But at either the top or the bottom of the system, deals are often made in ways not so completely different from ways that the gonwingu or nambikuara make them. sex drugs music, extravagant displays of food and the potential for violence do often play parts.