I have received inspiration and help in many parts of the world, over many years, in forming the ideas and ideals that made the writing of this
book so necessary. I have spent large chunks of time living among Navahos, Eskimos, and Balinese, as \ell as spending nearly one-third of
each of the last seven years in Fin- land and Sweden, and I feel that this has shaped my thoughts. In Chapter Four, 'Do-It-Yourself Murder', I
am indebted to the late Dr Robert Lindner of Baltimore, with whom I corresponded for a number of years, for his concept of the 'Triad of
Limitations'. The idea of kymmenykset was first formulated by me during a design conference on the island of Suomenlinna in Finland in
1968. The word Ujamaa, as a simple way of saying 'we work together and help each other without colonialism or neo- colonial exploitation',
was supplied in Africa during my UNESCO work.