Millennium Book

Ideas that I took away: Our culture is individualistic, rituals are helpful in social cohesion, competitions can be pursued aesthetically as a means to unify communities, we don't have good initiation rites in the West (my idea: so for us, every time a person gains some new aspect of their older identity (i.e. they mature), they tend to cut off relationships with people, which has a similar effect as the sharp and painful experiences of initiation in traditional societies)... probably more if I thought longer.

This book is kind of a "light read" for me, and an overview, so I'd like to read more books on the topic. I wanted something that would give me ideas on how a sustainable culture would look, and I think that was exactly the point of this book, and it did give me some ideas.