John Gowdy: “Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Are We Always Ultra Social?
The pot latch is when they would get social status by giving stuff away, by throwing big feasts. And that's what gained status for the potlatch indians. It's interesting too, because after contact, kno, with westerners, then they got more material things and the potlatches became,. i really got out of hand. They o had thes huge ceremonies, sere. They would actually destroy wealth and ought to burn blankets, burned possessions and so on. All really kind of like alexander super tramping into the wild. He burn his last dollars. Oh, so getting back to the main thread here, john, were humans always ultra social,
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