“The oppression and destruction aren’t bugs in the System
They are the System”. –Jason Godesky

Rewilding Your Connection to the Land Through Stories

Honestly it was a lot to wade through for a few nuggets of argent like that, but I’m glad I did.

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Another ep.

Living in a Material World: The Rewilding Podcast

The Daniel man gives us a pretty interesting postulate–that agriculture might have started, and in fact seems to have started in various places at various times, way before the disastrous dawn of civilization. The reason those early attempts didn’t screw everything up was that the climate was given to much more variable mood swings back then, so while there might have been humans doing small-scale farming for twenty years, eventually it would get too hot or too cold or too dry for it to go on indefinitely, and so it didn’t lead to big surpluses and resource inequality and hierarchies.

Like it did this time.

We might well have taken the broken path much earlier, in other words, but the wild climate saved us from ourselves, until it settled down, and then we did, and then mistakes were made.

Other good stuff too; I enjoyed this listen quite a lot more. Like for instance at the very end, when he asks a simple and clarifying question:

Why does democracy not apply to the workplace?

Yeah, why?