Professor Allison paints an enchanting noble savage picture, in a Teaching Company video, from Before 1776, of New England area Native Americans' war practices, and ritual eating habits, including ritual noble torture, and nobly eating the heart (at least) of brave, vanquished, properly tortured enemies.
One critical distinction, from an individualist anarchist like Ayn Rand, is that these Native American noble savages, like Burroughs' Babangos, are conceived as tribally noble, as contrasted sharply with the individualist, entrepreneurial, anarchist, Rand ian, anti civilizational, single and unique noble savage, Tarzan.
Burroughs considered advanced Western civ ignoble, just as Rand did I think.
'Civilization' for them was itself strictly Western. The rest was not civilized.
"Civilization" was, for them, as it had been for Cecil Rhodes, a singular term.
yet, to paraphrase Mrs Clinton, it takes a village to make a good noble, or ignoble, savage, cannibal or not.
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