Families would plan and save for a long time before they would host a potlatch.
Russell said he had forgot to say something to the women out there. He had asked some elder women who had been in long term relationships how they made it work. They told him that they treat their husbands like they are 12-years-old. Men, they said, will do three things: pout, throw tantrums, and want their moms. If women can understand that, then their lives will be much easier.
These animals participate in dynamic societies made up of individuals, and their lives are replete with feelings, decisions, and intentions, rooted in biology yet elaborated in cooperative—and competitive—interaction.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other”—Mark Twain
