In his business tome "Microtrends" published in September, he glories in "the niching of America," observing that "there is no one America anymore" but "hundreds of Americas".
While dutifully observing that there are just as many disparities in wealth within regions as between them, he admits that the south is racing ahead.
A friend recalled him observing that there were trends in the designs, ways of folding that would become prevalent and then disappear, only to have a resurgence years later.
He sees no particular connection between that distant commotion and local history, in which he takes little interest apart from observing that "there was a lot of what you might call fanaticism around here in the early days".
Observing that there was a mass of complex data on the subject, Mauss continued: in these "early" societies, social phenomena are not discrete; each phenomenon contains all the threads of which the social fabric is composed.
We may conclude by observing that there are two modes of argument one must choose between.
