Hyper-security and Over-domestication

an emergency, a fear, a turn to big government expenditures and big technology solutions

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a major movie of the spring was going to be “Call of the Wild”

oh, well

anyway
humanity hasn’t been able to hear that call for a long time

wildness (“wild animals” … living “in the wild”) was the original reality

but
there’s been a dynamic toward domestication

we domesticated the land
cleared it of other flora and fauna such that we could produce human food and exploit resources we wanted

clearing, domesticating, and then sustaining domestication . . . involves quite a bit of work

ten thousand years ago
it might have been a necessity given problematic population densities
and/or there might have been a feeling that what we would gain would be worth the work
and/or there might just have been enrichment for those people who could dominate the process and benefit from it

anyway
over millennia, in degrees, we gave up autonomy and community
for the security and achievements of civilization at higher and higher levels of domestication
larger and more integrated
with the power of concentrated wealth, large-scale division of labor
widespread support systems, awesome institutions and technologies
globalized economy

but
an idea . . . that . . .
beyond some point in such a process
(as much as you focus on the gains)
you’ve actually lost more than you’ve gained

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a problem with traditional leftism is that it’s been too enamored with Big Government solutions

that’s one of the reasons why the left needs to transition from Red to Green