Homo Novus: Where Is He Now?

[ricardo shillyshally]

Yes, Orson, another homo novus. Speeches like that stick in our minds. I think BB in a cultural eddy type of way has reminded me of many forgotten ideas, programmes, people. And it's certainly sent me down many tangents. I read about a tribe, who refuse to have children because they believe it's beneath their dignity. They are a high ranking tribe. So they adopt children from lower caste tribes, and thus propagate their culture. The cultural gene taking presidence over the biological gene.