Plains Indians did not evolve to handle alcohol.  Their most basic genome is Asian and did not evolve where people routinely drank alcohol of some kind with all meals as Europeans have.  This is not a lot different from lack of immunity to smallpox.  One’s body develops in a context and if the element, whatever it might be, isn’t there, then the body doesn’t learn...

“Publishing” “books” under the guidance of a benign, self-effacing and all-knowing editor and thereby becoming rich and famous — aside from curing whatever psychosis was imposed on you in childhood — is a myth that has died. Now what?  Like, what vocabulary can we use?  I’m going to use my own inventions and you can just gather from context what...

It’s so easy to slip into Us vs. Them thinking. That’s how we got so screwed up with this question of jurisdictions.  At first white contact it might have been possible to defend the idea that tribal people were fundamentally different from Euro-whites, because the former had been here for enough millenia for the land to shape them, both genes and memes.  But the...