Today's Tribal Societies: Our True Nature's Last Mirror

Send us Fan Mail Read the article on Substack These aren't primitive people. They're specialists in being human. And here's what really messes with our modern assumptions: they achieved something we're constantly told is impossible. They created societies without bosses, without cops, without prisons, without wealth inequality—and they worked for millennia. How? Through what anthropologist Christopher Boehm calls "reverse dominance." They were, in his words, "fiercely egalitarian." When someo...