Tonight's guest essay from Chuck Burr, brought back memories of a similar message, (after reading Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" many years ago), that jettisoned me from my more=better individual trajectory. Quinn's books were among the first I read suggesting our current cultural norms were not the preordained destination for our species, and caused me to read far and wide about what was happening to our planet and the general intersection of more demand/ less supply. In a related vein, Chuck Burr's essay takes a very wide boundary view of our options as a culture encountering multiple resource limits but weighed down by huge existing fixed infrastructure. I don't agree with all of it, as we may have been 'Takers' all along just with lower tribal populations, but his essay raises some interesting and important issues. We're not going 'back', but it is possible to go forward on a parallel but different path. Tonight's Campfire questions are: How WOULD we just walk away from the existing social and built infrastructure? Is it desirable? Is it possible?
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