Did we lose more than we gained when we advanced from “social mammal” to “modern individual”?
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Did we lose more than we gained when we advanced from “social mammal” to “modern individual”?
At the supermarket you can get everything you need at one location and it’s cheaper than anywhere else. But when it seems too good to be true, there’s usually a catch. In this article we’ll explore the complex web of connections and consequences attached to the cheap convenience on the supermarket shelves.
You don’t have to be a passive recipient of the programming that surrounds you. You can BE the programmer.
What we eat illuminates the relationship—or lack of it—between us and our natural world. It also directly influences the way our living planet is used.
“Independent” individuals and nuclear families are artificially sustained by a fossil fuel dependent, growth-at-all-costs system that cannot last. The only viable alternative is to return to living in direct relationship with each other and with the web of life that can sustain us indefinitely, if we care for it as the extension of ourselves that it really is.
You don’t have to live a life and think thoughts that are just handed to you. You can continue growing indefinitely, crafting your own worldview and life-experiences, in an ongoing process of consciously “parenting yourself.”
Our beginnings in rural Australia and a small town in Switzerland, our meeting in Colorado, USA, and our switch from Natural Horsemanship to a journey towards real and green.