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Saber Tooth Chapter VI The Youth Problem
Surplus Causes a Depression • The youth of the tribe don’t have work • It’s hard for the elders to find work • Even harder for the youth • They have never worked • They don’t have the fish, meat, or hides to pay for university • They begin playing with rock piles
Playing with Rocks • Games are created • Forms of art are created • Leisure time is taken up in playing with rocks • Some youth stir and claim a right to work • Other youth report them to the elders • Elders devise a plan – they call for the creation of a youth commission to begin immediately
Youth Commission • Fish, antelope, and bear chiefs send hired men • University professors attend • Brotherhoods of workers represented • Youth un-represented • During commission radical youth break in • They present a plan and beg to work • They are thrown out, labeled as uneducated and possibly influenced by un-paleolithic upbringing
Commission Decisions • Decide to create a special administration • They search, find, classify, and arrange rocks • They then organize the youth • Provide recreation program around rocks • An outsider arrives and asks questions • The outsider is seen as uneducated it the tribes ways • Once again the system justifies itself and upholds the status quo