The Hunting And Gathering Societies

There has always been different ways to achieve these ends.  One can work for a mundane existence, for some form of script, to buy or trade to someone who actually grows or hunts the food, or find a middleman who will bring it to you.  You could still grow or hunt.  You could kill those that do in order to steal their goods, for sometimes that seems easiest or most appropriate.  You could allow yourself to be caught so that we, as taxpayers, can provide your subsidence while in prison.  You could work for a large governing body trying to dictate how we may hunt and gather, and who we may accept into our prospective societies, and we, as taxpayers, must readily accept this, because we voted your superiors into some form of law abiding office.   You could do nothing so that, we as taxpayers, can try and work harder, and be happy knowing someone must support you, and it isn't going to be your brother or mother.  Since I don't hunt, I prefer to gathering.  In my society, subsistence is provided through the excesses, because of the haste and guilt of the other, more predictable tax paying societies.  We eat well.  Or one could start writing down their stories and reading them in public.  Surely someone will throw food.

Dennis Doblinger 

from December, 2000 issue