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(This page will redirect to the new location in 60 seconds, unless you select a link option) Anthropology: Studies in Anthropology can give us the humility to understand that simpler, apparently less sophisticated, cultures (past and present) can more effectively overcome and face problems that we in the West now find very challenging. We tend to assume, because we have developed very successful modern technology, democratic politics and sophisticated ideas & practices, that modern styles of social organisation and attitudes are superior to those of the past, or of other cultures. There are a number of false assumptions here: Firstly, these ideas and practices were developed by a relatively few number of people, a few others then successfully specialise in these new developments and advanced them, the rest just follow, or have copied, in some way. Secondly, most of these ideas and psycho-social 'advances' are transformations of existing knowledge and practices, that were often equally sophisticated and revolutionary (in their time and the social and technological context) as the latest inventions. Unfortunately (for our societies), being born into a particular time, or social & and technological context, doesn't mean that we are all immediately adapted (not blindly adhere) to the established system and structure appropriately. This is particularly true in the sense of 'social' adaptation. In many ways, our cultures present the same kinds of problems that arise when you give machine guns to a warring, or hunting culture, used to using blow pipes, or bows and arrows (or otherwise getting along with each other). (Click here for more) CLICK ON LINK: 
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