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Part one: Closing In on the Problem    (c) 1999 Daniel Quinn
3 A fable to start with
4 A manual of change
5 Who are the people of "our culture"?
6 What does "saving the world" mean?
7 Old minds with new programs
8 New minds with no programs
9 No programs at all?

10 If not programs, then what?
11 The invisibility of success
12 The invisibility of tribal success.
13 Conspicuous success, invisible source
14 Vision is like gravity
15 The spread of vision
16 Vision: success without programs
17 When the vision turns ugly
18 Programs aren't wicked, just inadequate
19 But how could we get along without programs?

20 But how will we live then?
21 How can we achieve a vision we can't imagine?
22 The leaping of genes and memes
23 Small percentages, big differences
24 Which memes do we need to change?
25 Lethal memes

Part two: Closing in on the Process
29 Survival machines for genes
30 Survival machines for memes
31 The fidelity of coping
32 Genetic and memetic replication
33 The best way to live
34 Maybe they just sort of fell into it?
35 Maybe they were just hungry?
36 New World adopters of the meme
37 The Maya
38 The Olmec and Teotihuacan
39 The Hohokam and the Anasazi

.40 Looking for the actors
41 "Those Who Vanished"
42 Why none will ever be satisfactory
43 What a difference a _____ makes!
44 For want of a meme, a civilization was lost
45 When the underclass become restless
46 What about all the others?
47 The Cultural Fallacy
48 The other mystery of "Lost Civilizations"
49 The missing meme

50 Holy work
51 Pyramid builders
52 Pharaohs
53 The Mayan Solution
54 Beyond the pyramid

Part Three Walking Away from the Pyramid
57 Social organizations and natural selection
58 Definitions and examples
59 The mysterious persistence

60 Some DO want more than adequacy
61 Tribalism the workable
62 What would you expect?
63 If you like it so much...
64 What people like about tribal societies
65 Is there really such a thing as "the circus"?
66 Circus people are tribal people
67 "I beg to differ!"
68 Tribal tales
69 "Here you're part of something."

70 The turn away from tribalism
71 From tribalism to hierarchalism
72 What folks dislike about hierarchies
73 But aren't tribes actually hierarchal?
74 Dreaming away the hierarchy
75 The first rational: justifying it
76 The second rationale: transcending it
77 The third rationale: overthrowing it
78 Opium is the opium of the people
79 My own life at the pyramid

80 Am I building my own pyramid?
81 What does "civilization" mean?
82 Putting the pieces together
83 Another experiment in hierarchalism
84 A systemic problem
85 Beyond hierarchalism
86 A wrong direction: "giving up" things
87 Standards of living
88 Standards of living: Chicago--Madrid
89 Standards of living:Madrid--Houston
90 A lover of civilization
91 Searching for an alternative

Part Four * Toward the New Tribalism
95 Revolution without upheaval
96 Revolution without overthrow
97 No one right way
98 No heavenly choir
99 Those who would wait

100 Fighters of the good fight
101 Goliath with a new mind
102 The incremental revolution
103 Ethnic tribalism won't work for us
104 Jeffrey
105 The open tribe
106 The limits of openness
107 Nontribal businesses
108 But how does it render us harmless?
109 "The culture of maximum harm"

110 But how can we contain their expansion?
111 Something better to hope for
112 An intermediate goal: less harmful
113 But is "less harmful" enough?
114 Ending the food race
115 100 years beyond civilization
116 200 years beyond civilization
117 But where exactly is "beyond"?
Part Five The Tribe of Crow

121 Reluctant pioneers
122 Making the homeless disappear
123 If it didn't work last year...
124 A new rule for new minds
125 Listening to the homeless
126 Is homelessness an earthquake?
127 What would acceding look like?
128 Letting them house themselves
129 Letting them feed themselves

130 Letting them make a living
131 Let my people go!
132 "i like the way my life is now."
133 What would come of it?
134 I'm not ENTIRELY alone!
135 Objections
136 The most telling objection of all

Part Six: The New Tribal Revolution
139 The Tribe of Crow--and others
140 The East Mountain News
141 Why it worked
142 The East Mountain News as circus
143 The success and failure of the paper
144 The tribal benefit
145 What happened to Hap and C.J.?
146 Tribal business: the ingredients
147 What ventures lend themselves to it?
148 A new tribal venture
149 Tribal tasks and organizational patterns

150 Cradle-to-grave security?
151 What about care for the elderly?
152 Tribes of the mind
153 The tribe IS its members
154 Why make a living at all?
155 Another tribal example
156 Scuffling in the usual way
157 But can't an X be a tribe?
158 Communities and tribes: origins
159 Communities and tribes: membership

160 Can't a tribe be a commune?
161 Can't a commune be a tribe?
162 "Let's do the show right here in the barn!"
163 Aren't the Amish a farming tribe?
164 Noble savages?
165 An intermittent tribal business
166 My next tribal enterprise
167 To distinguish is to know
168 The civilized hate and fear tribal people
169 Tribes and communities

170 A parable about sustainability
171 Why what we've got is unsustainable
172 Let's bail out and go over the wall!
173 A systemic change
174 But why "humanity's" next great adventure?

Part Seven Beyond Civilization
177 Liberation
178 Listening to the children
179 The Littleton bloodbath
180 Listening to the monsters
181 A cultural space of our own
182 Why things didn't end up a-changing'
183 Another story to be in
184 No one right way
185 Gotcha this way!
186 Gotcha that way!
187 The beginning is not the end
188 What, no miracles?
189 140 words of advice
190 A dynamite ending      (c) 1999 Daniel Quinn
Beyond Civilization topics.
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