re: the concept of “re-wilding”

Jack London’s book The Call of the Wild is about the value of being wild and free:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild

Human consciousness prevents us from living “just wild” as the rest of the animals do. We must exist to some extent within a cocoon of culture. But we’ve gone too far with that. When talking about the “Anthropocene,” a problem is that we developed a detrimental lust for control. Control as power. Control as shield. In doing so we’ve become too out-of-touch, too alienated from nature.

We need to “come down” from the modern condition of over-domesticity and over-development. Living more lightly, more locally, and more simply implies an appreciation for civilization-lite:

https://simplicityinstitute.org/

We can’t be fully “wild and free,” but we’d be happier (and the biosphere would be healthier) if we could find our way back to being somewhat wilder and somewhat free-er. Find our way Home.

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(I think people who believe in the value of being wild and free would not have pets.)