Social Control of Alcohol Consumption

In ancient greece, the symposium, the wine gathering was run by a symposiar controlled the consumption of the alcohol. In ancient china, and actually to day and china, you don't drink when someone makes a toast. All this goes out the door when you have drive through liquor stores. You can go through a drive through liquor store and load up your suv with enough liquor to a medium sized village and just take it home. This is evolutionarily unprecedented, and it's dangerous. So one take home message from the book is, beware of distilled liquors, and don't, don't drink alone. Tik, drinking alone's really dangerous. Now that