The Cultural Relativity Vortex

I believe, if this trip has for me (as a thinking person) a valuable experience, it lies in the strengthening of the viewpoint of the relativity of all cultivation. - Franz Boas, Baffin Island Letter-Diary , 23 December 1883 The riotous novel Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy described a device called the Total Perspective Vortex. The Vortex grants instant awareness of exactly how insignificant you…