Livre d'Or

I need to jump in with a bit of cheerleading for modern Western society, and everything post-hunter-gatherer in general! I was reading an article (I can't find it right now, sorry) written by an anthropologist who was staying with some modern-day hunter-gatherers, and he met this one guy who didn't quite click with his family group. And it was terrible for him, because he wasn't just lonely. In a group that relies on that kind of close cohesion to eat, he was starving to death, because people wouldn't share with him. It turns out really close societies don't mean there are no lonely people. It means the lonely people die.