As a species, as a culture, and as members of something much much bigger (and being made up of things much much smaller) it is counter-intuitive and unproductive to live in a physical and mental state of uniformity. In fact, it is against the law. Much like the law of gravity, there is a natural law throughout the universe which dictates that any species that does not live by the natural shift between what is zero and what is infinite (or what is ordered and what is chaotic) will suffer physical and mental consequences. For approximately the last 10,000 years, the vast majority of humans that walked the Earth tried and failed to counter this law through the use of totalitarian agriculture. As a result, we now live in a world ravaged by crime, poverty, famine, starvation, depression, stress, injustice, and so many other terrible things. Yet, we produce far more than enough goods to satisfy the global population. Maybe it's not the human species itself that is at fault (in fact, I guarantee it isn't). Perhaps it's the food manufacturing and distribution processes we ( 99% of recent humans) have been following for thousands of years, which has yet to be shown to be more, or even equally, beneficial than previous agricultural and collective practices, namely primitivism. May I remind you that before the practice of totalitarian agriculture, humans, as well as millions of other species survived and thrived together in a constant state of change (again, the shifting of order and chaos). I say it's time we change a process that has failed us for far too long.
Whether it's perceived as a step forward or backward, both Maurice and I know that the only way to go places, is to move.
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