Money through the eyes of Mowgli

[The Tarzan suite analyses from the fully-formed individual onwards: the nodes make up the network. The Mowgli suite starts from interdependance and a child that needs to be cared for: the network makes the node.]

[The idea of passing a random stranger on the street did not exist in the past, as survival implied being a part of tightly-knit groups.]

[Nation states are only about 5000 years old and have dissolved the boundaries between smaller collectives to create 'the public', which we are vaguely connected to but do not know.]

[The image of 'prehistoric wilderness man' we consider today is a caricature. Primitive life was not 'solo men creating shelter and hunting' but intensely group-oriented collaboration, as can be seen in photos of indigenous tribes.]

[The myth of self-sufficiency assumes that interacting with others and trading is optional, as opposed to a mandatory means of survival.]

[The natural mechanism of 'life' is a sort of credit, where people give you things to help you survive without any immediate or precise expectation of return. You might pay it back informally or pay it forward.]