The artist culture's need to find the frontier Everywhere was
once "The Frontier" Despite the advancements in technology, the
human race remains a hunter-gatherer society wherein the role of
warrior, homemaker, mother and father remain paramount. As
members of the species outgrew the confines of the twenty-person
tribe into nations, the parameters of the tribe remained, among
its core tenants: provide for the tribe, do not kill members of
the tribe, provide for and protect the next generation, and
proportionately punish those who violate those rules necessary
for survival. Each tribe, then nation, and then ethnic culture
adapted rules, rewards and punishments in accordance with their
locale, terrain, food supplies, traditions, and value systems to
enforce these basic rules. Those that failed starved until they
adapted or went extinct. The Birth of Civilization Delineates
"The Frontier" However, as the human race spread and multiplied,
those rules changed to reflect the sheer size of the tribe,
which numbered