In today’s The Tao of SKWealthAcademy Podcast, Episode_20, titled, “The Things the Happiest Societies Would Find Abnormal About Modern Life,” I discuss why we have migrated away from many of the elements of hunter-gatherer societies that used to bring humanity great levels of sustainable happiness and why many of us have chosen a lifestyle with almost no sense of community and a heightened sense of isolation from our neighbors in overcrowded urban settings. Forgive the opening of the podcast that states this is Episode_018, as that is an error. This is Episode_020. This podcast could also be titled, “How a return to hunter gatherer society rules would solve modern society’s overfed, malnourished, lack of exercise, sleep deprived, low self-esteem, high anxiety and depressed, inequitable wealth, loneliness, and unhappiness problems.” I believe that this is one of the most important podcasts I have produced in the past year, and as such, it is also one of the longest, clocking in at well over an hour long, so grab a tall cup of coffee and settle in. Furthermore, for all of my friends that have young children, I made this podcast for you as well, as in modern society, we have migrated away from many of the child-rearing practices of hunter-gatherer societies that provided a sense of security and mental well-being to infants. I believe that the goals of social conditioning and production of an obedient labor force that go hand and hand with compulsory schooling today is largely responsible for the loss of community that is directly correlated to happiness among human beings today, as the stronger our acquiescence to authoritative State powers becomes, the greater our loss of community grows. However, this is a topic likely best suited for a series of podcasts about the necessity for the complete overhaul of the schooling system, and I will address this topic in much more detail in future The Tao of SKWealthAcademy podcasts, so please subscribe to our podcast if interested in this topic as well. Within the body of this audio podcast, I use examples of both American Indian societies in pre-colonial and colonial America as well as examples of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies to explore the rules and characteristics of their societies that once led a French colonialist living in the new America to conclude, “there must be in their social bond something singularly captivating and far superior to anything to be boasted among us.” It is not necessary for any of us to give up the qualities that existed in their social structure that create lasting and sustainable happiness, and even for those of us that live in urbanized environments, we can still adequately re-create many of these qualities in our lives if we so desire. With that said, I don’t want this article to merely restate everything I discuss in the below podcast, so I will just provide a brief taste of the podcast, and for the sake of avoiding redundancy, allow any one interested in listening to a more in-depth discussion of this topic to merely listen to the audio podcast in full. Indians ran their communities more like a constitutional republic than American colonial settlers ever did, even after the piece of paper was drafted that made America a constitutional republic. Throughout America’s history, practice never quite lived up to the law of being a constitutional republic. American Indian tribes were much more egalitarian in the distribution of power and authority than any American colony, although tribes had a chief and medicine man who were men in elevated positions of power within their patriarchal society. Still, women were not without power in their tribes. Within the societal hierarchy of most American Indian tribes, women held some type of authoritative power that served as a check on the male leadership of that tribe. For example, in the Iroquis nation, only women could nominate men for positions of leadership and even positions of speaking in...