“They are disgusted that our old age is often so miserable” (Image: Jochen Braun)
Jared Diamond changed the way we understand the modern world with his Pulitzer-prizewinning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel. Now he looks to tribal communities to see how we all once lived. Alison George asks him what the West has got right, and which ways of the past hold insights for the present
Your book is about traditional societies. Do you hope to shed light on the way we used to live?
Yes. Tribal societies give us a glimpse of how we all lived until virtually…
