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Thematic Index

Nearly all the themes of Beyond Civilization have been explored in earlier works. This index was designed to aid in tracing their development through time. Numbers immediately following index entries refer to this volume. Page numbers for Ishmael (ISH), The Story of B (TSOB), and My Ishmael (MI) refer to the trade paperback editions of these books, published by Bantam Books.



DEFINITIONS

civilization    81, 91, 117

culture    22, 58  • ISH  41, 198-200  • MI  39, 85

lifestyle    58

meme    21

saving the world    6-7  • ISH  24-26  • TSOB  48, 124-125  • MI  8, 193-194

social organization    58, 91

tribal business    65, 141, 146-150  • MI  224-225

tribes, cults, communes, gangs    63, 65, 103, 157-163, 169  • MI  86, 201, 220-226


CULTURE

"ours" and "theirs"    5  • ISH  38, 147-148, 152, 241  • TSOB  88-89, 92, 105-110, 156, 244-245, 253, 286  • MI  38-45, 49, 95, 117, 133, 160-163, 169-170, 174-175, 180, 183, 192

as "meme pool"    22

how different memes produce different cultures    23, 33, 44-50

Mother Culture speaks    30, 152  • ISH  36, 40, 42, 51-91, 101, 133, 138, 14.4-148, 201-203, 215-219, 229  • TSOB  214, 276  • MI  27-28, 34-36, 45, 95, 189-90, 194, 225


MEMES

as elements of vision    21, 23, 33, 44, 47-50, 54, 74

compared to genes    21-24, 29-30, 32

lethal    24-25, 53

replication    30-32  • MI  152-153

"knowledge of good and evil" as set of memes    25  • ISH  156-66, 169, 176-77, 181-183  • TSOB  96-97


OUR CULTURAL MYTHOLOGY

agriculture as inevitable or "the best way to live"    33-35, 44, 47  • ISH  37, 80, 83, 183, 201, 225  • TSOB  77, 83, 92-93, 108, 156, 244-245, 250  • MI  49, 56-57, 63

civilization as innate or unsurpassable    3, 13, 44-47, 53-54, 59, 74, 82  • ISH  37, 74-75, 81  • TSOB  75, 215, 244-245, 247, 250, 268, 319

humans innately flawed    12, 171, 183  • ISH  82-84, 88-59, 118, 136  • TSOB  93-94, 148, 217, 241-242, 268, 283, 322  • MI  35-36, 40, 42, 92

ours as "the one right way to live"    49, 97, 168, 183-186  • ISH  167-168, 204-206  • TSOB  82-88, 107-110, 128-129, 278, 313  • MI  95, 127, 178, 188

people of our culture as humanity itself    174  • TSOB  86, 110, 129, 136, 245, 247, 285-286

world made for man to conquer and rule    181  • ISH  61, 73-74, 79-84, 145, 147, 183, 243, 249  • TSOB  150-151, 156-157, 188, 278-280-281, 284


WHAT PEOPLE NEED AND WANT

freedom from wage slavery    44-45, 51-54, 104, 156  • ISH  25, 37  • TSOB  272, 274  • MI  52-58, 191-194

freedom to live a different way    73, 85, 90, 97, 104-106, 136, 139, 178-182  • ISH  25, 36-37  • TSOB  267  • MI  52-58,191-194

hope for the future    4, 6, 78, 104, 111, 178  • ISH  26, 145  • TSOB  267  • MI  117, 127, 194

security    86, 116, 132, 150-151, 153  • MI  180, 182

social and economic equality    3, 44-46, 51, 74-78, 115


WHO AREN'T GETTING WHAT THEY NEED?

the homeless    121-136  • ISH  218, 221  • MI  200

the young    104-105, 139, 178-180,182  • ISH  4-5, 25, 214  • MI  17-18, 196-204, 214-215


THE HIERARCHICAL SOLUTION

culture of "maximum harm"    109-111  • ISH  204, 207  • TSOB  278, 281-282  • MI  18

hierarchical wealth and standards of living    3, 51-52, 87-90, 107-111, 168-169  • ISH  206, 218  • TSOB  105-106  • MI  40, 51-58, 115, 119-120, 160-161,168-178, 191,

locking up the food    5, 70  • MI  39-40, 53, 61, 96, 116, 128, 134,174, 219

making a living in the hierarchy    44, 51-53, 60, 70, 79,107-108  • ISH  126-128, 203-204  • TSOB  157, 248 MI  39-40, 51-58, 128, 180, 183, 200

passing laws    16-17, 123  • ISH  204-205  • TSOB  265  • MI  111-113

schooling    123  • TSOB  50, 81  • MI  27, 46, 58, 128, 130-169, 211

social and economic inequality    44-46, 51-52, 70-72, 75-76, 107  • ISH  176-177, 218, 252-255  • TSOB  322  • MI  52-53, 116, 171-178

totalitarian agriculture, the food race, population growth    33-35, 50, 70, 113-114  • ISH  68, 132-139, 153, 215-217  • TSOB  76-78, 83-86, 91-96, 152-156, 247-248, 252-253, 259-275, 287-306, 310  • MI  48-58

tried in the Pre-Columbian New World    36-47, 60, 83  • ISH  108, 119-120, 168, 250  • MI  99, 178

unsustainability of    82, 86, 170-171  • ISH  104-110, 118-119, 133, 139-143, 213  • TSOB  254-255  • MI  18, 61-62


THE TRIBAL SOLUTION

food free for the taking    33-35  • ISH  223  • MI  39, 51-53, 171

non-totalitarian agriculture    33-35, 70  • ISH  133-35, 167  • TSOB  79,  • MI  51-53, 60-61, 97-99

making a living in the tribe    33-35, 41, 60-61, 63-89, 140-145, 148-149, 154-156  • ISH  203-204  • MI  55, 174-175

social and economic equality    3, 64, 67, 73, 82, 116  • TSOB  322  • MI  116, 174-175

tribal wealth and standards of living    73, 87-90, 105, 141, 150  • ISH  146-148, 220-227  • TSOB  107-110, 181-189, 307-322  • MI  114-116, 169-170, 174-175, 179-186, 191-192, 212, 223-225


LEARNING FROM THE PAST

Why did past peoples abandon their civilizations?    40-42, 44-47, 59-60, 62, 82  • ISH  106, 168  • TSOB  320-321

Why haven't we abandoned OURS?    42-44, 48-49, 53, 74, 82  • ISH  105-110, 168

the "Children's Revolt" of the 1960s and 1970s    182  • ISH  4-5, 214  • MI  214-215


LEARNING FROM WHAT WORKS

invisibility of success    11-14  • ISH  95-104, 117-119  • TSOB  149-150, 216-219  • MI  33, 122-123

social organizations of other species and cultures    57, 61, 83-84, 103, 115  • ISH  102, 117-136, 140-148, 200-203, 216-217, 220, 237, 244-246  • TSOB  51-61, 133-143, 151-155, 159-176, 181-189, 216-219, 252-254, 259-262, 309-319  • MI  45, 69-91, 93-96, 100-110, 118-121, 124-126, 153-157, 163-164, 184-185


PROGRAMS AND VISION

Christianity and other religions as vision    14-16  • TSOB  50-51, 62, 145, 268-269, 323  • MI  117

Industrial Revolution as vision    14-16, 19  • TSOB  49-50, 234, 280  • MI  207-211

memes as elements of vision    21, 23, 33, 44-45, 47-50, 54, 74

new minds/Old minds    7-9, 17, 101, 124, 187  • TSOB  48, 73, 76-77, 91-94, 234  • MI  274

spreading mechanisms of visions    15  • TSOB  51, 83-86, 145-146

vision and vision versus programs    7-10, 14-19, 21, 59, 101, 110-111  • ISH  248-249, 243-244  • TSOB  35, 48-52, 73, 76, 145-189, 234, 268, 276-286


THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE

abandoning civilization    37-56, 59, 85, 91  • ISH  37, 214, 248-250  • MI  108, 218-219, 225

abandoning "one right way for people to live"    40, 48, 97  • MI  217

acceding to homelessness    124-136  • MI  206-207

creating new "cultural spaces"    80, 117, 126, 180-181  • MI  206

paradigm shifts    20, 183  • TSOB  76-78, 91-94, 97


THE NEW TRIBAL REVOLUTION

a world of tribes    105-106, 115-116, 153, 173

as "escape route" from the hierarchy    54, 107, 110-111, 172-174  • MI  128-129, 214-226

continued need to make a living    130, 140-142, 148-149, 154, 188

culture of "less harm"    112-113

incremental change versus revolution, "fighting"    85, 95-96, 98-102, 137  • MI  218

tribal businesses (circuses and other)    63-69, 72, 106, 140-170  • MI  224-225

Tribe of Crow    134, 139  • MI  206-207, 211













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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following: The Providence Journal Company for excerpts from "The Circus Atmosphere at Ninigret Park" (Providence Journal-Bulletin, July 12, 19941. Reprinted by permission. Anthony Weir for lines from The Transcendental Hotel. Reprinted by permission. Joseph Chassler for "LS of TP&D" from Addict's Damn. Reprinted by permission.

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