Part eight of an eight-part series on the meaning of life


Prior: Insanity

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

                                                                             *- John Keats, 1819*

Conclusion

A couple years ago, I spent an afternoon hunting with the Hadzabe tribe in the Great Rift Valley. The Hadza are one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes in the world (population 1,200). We spent the day hunting birds with arrows and then cooking them over a fire started from donkey shit. While we ate, I asked a tribe member (pictured below) a few questions through an interpreter.

Hadza tribe member I interviewed, 2021

Hadza tribe member I interviewed, 2021