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Index
Cover
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Title Page
Dedication
Part One - Closing In on the Problem
Chapter 1 - A fable to start with
Chapter 2 - A Manual of Change
Chapter 3 - Who are the people of “our culture”?
Chapter 4 - What does “saving the world” mean?
Chapter 5 - Old minds with new programs
Chapter 6 - New minds with no programs
Chapter 7 - No programs at all?
Chapter 8 - If not programs, then what?
Chapter 9 - The invisibility of success
Chapter 10 - The invisibility of tribal success
Chapter 11 - Conspicuous success, invisible source
Chapter 12 - Vision is like gravity
Chapter 13 - The spread of vision
Chapter 14 - Vision: success without programs
Chapter 15 - When the vision turns ugly
Chapter 16 - Programs aren't wicked, just inadequate
Chapter 17 - But how could we get along without programs?
Chapter 18 - But how will we live then?
Chapter 19 - How can we achieve a vision we can't imagine?
Chapter 20 - The leaping of genes and memes
Chapter 21 - Small percentages, big differences
Chapter 22 - Which memes do we need to change?
Chapter 23 - Lethal memes
Part Two - Closing In on the Process
Chapter 24 - Survival machines for genes
Chapter 25 - Survival machines for memes
Chapter 26 - The fidelity of copying
Chapter 27 - Genetic and memetic replication
Chapter 28 - The best way to live
Chapter 29 - Maybe they just sort of fell into it?
Chapter 30 - Maybe they were just hungry?
Chapter 31 - New World adopters of the meme
Chapter 32 - The Maya
Chapter 33 - The Olmec and Teotihuacán
Chapter 34 - The Hohokam and the Anasazi
Chapter 35 - Looking for the actors
Chapter 36 - “Those Who Vanished”
Chapter 37 - Why none will EVER be satisfactory
Chapter 38 - What a difference a ____ makes!
Chapter 39 - For want of a meme, a civilization was lost
Chapter 40 - When the underclass becomes restless
Chapter 41 - What about all the others?
Chapter 42 - The Cultural Fallacy
Chapter 43 - The other mystery of “Lost Civilizations”
Chapter 44 - The missing meme
Chapter 45 - Holy work
Chapter 46 - Pyramid builders
Chapter 47 - Pharaohs
Chapter 48 - The Mayan Solution
Chapter 49 - Beyond the pyramid
Part Three - Walking Away from the Pyramid
Chapter 50 - Social organization and natural selection
Chapter 51 - Definitions and examples
Chapter 52 - The mysterious persistence
Chapter 53 - Some DO want more than adequacy
Chapter 54 - Tribalism the workable
Chapter 55 - What would you expect?
Chapter 56 - If you like it so much …
Chapter 57 - What people like about tribal societies
Chapter 58 - Is there really such a thing as “the circus”?
Chapter 59 - Circus people are tribal people
Chapter 60 - “I beg to differ!”
Chapter 61 - Tribal tales
Chapter 62 - “Here you're part of something.”
Chapter 63 - The turn away from tribalism
Chapter 64 - From tribalism to hierarchalism
Chapter 65 - What folks dislike about hierarchies
Chapter 66 - But aren't tribes actually hierarchal?
Chapter 67 - Dreaming away the hierarchy
Chapter 68 - The first rationale: justifying it
Chapter 69 - The second rationale: transcending it
Chapter 70 - The third rationale: overthrowing it
Chapter 71 - Opium is the opium of the people
Chapter 72 - My own life at the pyramid
Chapter 73 - Am I building my own pyramid?
Chapter 74 - What does “civilization” mean?
Chapter 75 - Putting the pieces together
Chapter 76 - Another experiment in hierarchalism
Chapter 77 - A systemic problem
Chapter 78 - Beyond hierarchalism
Chapter 79 - A wrong direction: “giving up” things
Chapter 80 - Standards of living
Chapter 81 - Standards of living: Chicago–Madrid
Chapter 82 - Standards of living: Madrid–Houston
Chapter 83 - A lover of civilization
Chapter 84 - Searching for an alternative
Part Four - Toward the New Tribalism
Chapter 85 - Revolution without upheaval
Chapter 86 - Revolution without overthrow
Chapter 87 - No one right way
Chapter 88 - No heavenly choir
Chapter 89 - Those who would wait
Chapter 90 - Fighters of the good fight
Chapter 91 - Goliath with a new mind
Chapter 92 - The incremental revolution
Chapter 93 - Ethnic tribalism won't work for us
Chapter 94 - Jeffrey
Chapter 95 - The open tribe
Chapter 96 - The limits of openness
Chapter 97 - Nontribal businesses
Chapter 98 - But how does it render us harmless?
Chapter 99 - “The culture of maximum harm”
Chapter 100 - But how can we contain their expansion?
Chapter 101 - Something better to hope for
Chapter 102 - An intermediate goal: less harmful
Chapter 103 - But is “less harmful” enough?
Chapter 104 - Ending the food race
Chapter 105 - 100 years beyond civilization
Chapter 106 - 200 years beyond civilization
Chapter 107 - But where exactly is “beyond”?
Part Five - The Tribe of Crow
Chapter 108 - Reluctant pioneers
Chapter 109 - Making the homeless disappear
Chapter 110 - If it didn't work last year …
Chapter 111 - A new rule for new minds
Chapter 112 - Listening to the homeless
Chapter 113 - Is homelessness an earthquake?
Chapter 114 - What would acceding look like?
Chapter 115 - Letting them house themselves
Chapter 116 - Letting them feed themselves
Chapter 117 - Letting them make a living
Chapter 118 - Let my people go!
Chapter 119 - “I like the way my life is now.”
Chapter 120 - What would come of it?
Chapter 121 - I'm not ENTIRELY alone!
Chapter 122 - Objections
Chapter 123 - The most telling objection of all
Part Six - The New Tribal Revolution
Chapter 124 - The Tribe of Crow—and others
Chapter 125 - The
Chapter 126 - Why it worked
Chapter 127 - The as circus
Chapter 128 - The success and failure of the paper
Chapter 129 - The tribal benefit
Chapter 130 - What happened to Hap and C.J.?
Chapter 131 - Tribal business: the ingredients
Chapter 132 - What ventures lend themselves to it?
Chapter 133 - A new tribal venture
Chapter 134 - Tribal tasks and organizational patterns
Chapter 135 - Cradle-to-grave security?
Chapter 136 - What about care for the elderly?
Chapter 137 - Tribes of the mind
Chapter 138 - The tribe IS its members
Chapter 139 - Why make a living at all?
Chapter 140 - Another tribal example
Chapter 141 - Scuffling in the usual way
Chapter 142 - But can't an X be a tribe?
Chapter 143 - Communities and tribes: origins
Chapter 144 - Communities and tribes: membership
Chapter 145 - Can't a tribe be a commune?
Chapter 146 - Can't a commune be a tribe?
Chapter 147 - “Let's do the show right here in the barn!”
Chapter 148 - Aren't the Amish a farming tribe?
Chapter 149 - Noble savages?
Chapter 150 - An intermittent tribal business
Chapter 151 - My next tribal enterprise
Chapter 152 - To distinguish is to know
Chapter 153 - The civilized hate and fear tribal people
Chapter 154 - Tribes and communities
Chapter 155 - A parable about sustainability
Chapter 156 - Why what we've got is unsustainable
Chapter 157 - Let's bail out and go over the wall!
Chapter 158 - A systemic change
Chapter 159 - But why “humanity's” next great adventure?
Part Seven - Beyond Civilization
Chapter 160 - Liberation
Chapter 161 - Listening to the children
Chapter 162 - The Littleton bloodbath
Chapter 163 - Listening to the monsters
Chapter 164 - A cultural space of our own
Chapter 165 - Why things didn't end up a-changin'
Chapter 166 - Another story to be in
Chapter 167 - No one right way
Chapter 168 - Gotcha this way!
Chapter 169 - Gotcha that way!
Chapter 170 - The beginning is not the end
Chapter 171 - What, no miracles?
Chapter 172 - 140 words of advice
Chapter 173 - A dynamite ending
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