There is fundamentally wrong with man. Man came to become man through the process of evolution. There are two general classification of man: the Leavers who believe that man belongs to the world and relies on its bounty for survival and the Takers who believe that the world belongs to man and believe that man must rule the world and must not be dictated nor be limited by the world.
Originally, all of man was all Leavers who are necessarily hunter-gatherers. The division of these classes came to upon the discovery of the Takers of agriculture. The Takers grew their own food resulting to their population growth which prompted them to expand their land by forcing the Leavers out of their own.
People of today are all descendants of these Takers and are themselves Takers except for a dwindling number of Leavers still unsoiled by Taker-thinking who are located on mountains and other obscure places.
It is said that today’s people, the descendants of the Takers, don’t know how they ought to live because there is an unavailability of this knowledge. The Taker people then are using the trial-and-error method in figuring it out as evidenced by the frequent rise and subsequent fall of various tribes, cultures, religions and civilizations in the far-past called history until they arrived at today’s lifestyle or way of living which stood longer than the others they have tried.
Today’s way of life is being profoundly accepted and believed to be the true and proper way of living but is in fact a free-fall waiting to meet ground. Today’s norm and culture, which was birthed thousand years ago, has and is continuously ruining Mother Nature because of the lack of the proper knowledge of how people ought to live. Said information was lost or appropriately termed, buried ten thousand years ago by the discovery of agriculture that spawned population growth and corollary thereto food shortage which is answered by additional production. Every increase in food production leads to an increase in population. This principle is still in effect in today’s status quo where surplus productions of First World farmers are fueling the Third Worlds’ population explosion.
I am of the opinion that the author does not really want us to go back to our primitive ways but rather to point out that our current civilization is damned (forgive the dramatics). I would suggest that we find a balance between the Leaver and Taker philosophy. We need a way to suckle the bounties of nature sans sucking the life out of it.
-Babu Monang-
March 15, 2016 – 1:20 pm
Babu Monang 