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At the present time, the United States represents the high point of maximum affluence that our civilization has reached. There's no place on earth where people have more, use more, or waste more than the United States. Though other nations haven't as yet reached this high point, they yearn to reach it. They have no other goal. There's only one right way for people to live, and the people of the United States epitomize it. Everyone in the world should have a house, a car, a computer, a television set, a telephone, and so on--at least one of each, preferably several. This I call "the culture of maximum harm," a culture in which all members are dedicated to attaining the high point of maximum affluence (and to forever raising the high point of maximum affluence). Beyond Civilization

New book from Daniel Quinn! If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways "One of the most troublesome questions I've been asked--and it's been asked hundreds of times--is: 'Where do these strange ideas of yours come from?' In the beginning, I thought it was just the usual where-do-you-get-your-ideas? question that all authors receive. My readers soon set me straight. Read more ... Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2 Excerpt 3

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BC Study Guide

• UNIT 1 Defining the task and the terms
  
• UNIT 2 "Old Minds," "New Minds," and Programs
  
• UNIT 3 Vision and "The Invisibility of Success"
  
• UNIT 4 Vision and "The Invisibility of Success"
  
• UNIT 5 Genes and Memes
  
• UNIT 6 Survival Machines
  
• UNIT 7 The Best Way To Live
  
• UNIT 8 The Meme in the New World
  
• UNIT 9 Vanished Peoples
  
• UNIT 10 Lost Civilizations and Missing Memes
  
• UNIT 11 Pyramid Builders
  
• UNIT 12 Lifestyle, Social Organization, and Culture
  
• UNIT 13 Tribalism the Workable
  
• UNIT 14 A Modern Tribal Form
  
• UNIT 15 From Tribalism to Hierarchalism
  
• UNIT 16 Dealing with the Hierarchy
  
• UNIT 17 Civilization: Who Likes It?
  
• UNIT 18 Experiments and Alternatives
  
• UNIT 19 Standards of Living
  
• UNIT 20 A Different Sort of Revolution
  
• UNIT 21 Not Just the Same Old Battles
  
• UNIT 22 The Open Tribe
  
• UNIT 23 Becoming Less Harmful
  
• UNIT 24 The Food Race and Beyond
  
• UNIT 25 Reluctant Pioneers
  
• UNIT 26 Acceding to Homelessness
  
• UNIT 27 Accedence, Pro and Con
  
• UNIT 28 An Inadvertent Tribe
  
• UNIT 29 The Occupational Tribe
  
• UNIT 30 Tribal Goals
  
• UNIT 31 Tribes and Other Communities
  
• UNIT 32 Tribes and Communes
  
• UNIT 33 Other Tribal Enterprises
  
• UNIT 34 Our Unsustainable Society
  
• UNIT 35 A New Way To Go
  
• UNIT 36 No One Right Way
  
• UNIT 37 The Beginning