How different is your modern culture from the Sawi tenants?

         The main difference between the Sawi and me is that the Sawi people are still stuck in the hunter-gatherer system while in my society, technology allows us to bypass that. In a hunter-gatherer society, people have to constantly forage in order to survive. They can’t mass produce food or stockpile them effectively enough to focus on anything else. Because of this, every Sawi male becomes a hunter and every Sawi female becomes a gatherer. They live off the bare necessities and their lives are simple, almost one-dimentional.

         In my society, however, because of farmers mass-producing crops and animals, only a few people have to work to provide food and the rest can focus on other things. Because of this, individuals can pursue their goals and have some leisure time as all the necessities are made available by other members of society. This gives us a huge advantage over the Sawi: we have time to think. We can develop our own code of ethics by pondering over the conventional ideas of the time. Despite the huge number of problems in society (of which there are many) through this way of individuality, everyone is mentally free (at least, those of the middle class or higher).

         The Sawi have no such leisure for such deep thought. That time is better spent killing another boar or plotting another elaborate method to kill their enemies. This is the reason why the Sawi have never broken away from their primitive ideologies about vengeance, demons, and spirits. It never crossed their minds to doubt these beliefs because they were relatively well established and they had no time for serious doubts. The main difference between my culture and the Sawi is the amount of time we can invest into developing intangible concepts instead of practical needs.