I have to give credit, where credit is due. Many of those in power have realized that open domination leads to eventual revolt. So instead, they have put in place systems that bend, coax, cajole, and trick forces of nature, to increase the likelihood of securing a favourable outcome for themselves. Our world has become a natural lab where our innate tendencies are exploited through close observation and experimentation. The cultivation and yield of an immense, docile, mindless, apathetic citizenry is the mono-cultured crop they planted many years ago.

A package can travel from Japan, Germany, China, Australia in two days, but when it hits Canada it takes 5 days to travel 350kms.

Egalitarian has become such a bastardized word. When Europeans first arrived to North America they found people in societies that we would call egalitarian (meaning everyone is equal) but they actually seemed to be less concerned with equality than they were with autonomy, meaning an individual’s right to self-govern. Many of the indigenous civilizations of pre - European contact actually believed that each person having autonomy over him or herself is the most important value to protect. And while this means nobody can rightfully dominate anyone else, which in turn creates a relatively egalitarian society, individual liberty was prioritized over actual equality. Anthropologists have found that there were three forms of freedom that were commonly at the foundation of an egalitarian cultural value system: The freedom to move away: One should be free to leave at any time and know there’s somewhere else they can go and be welcomed. The freedom to disobey: One should be free to disobey orders without repercussion. The freedom to build new social worlds: If what exists isn’t working, there should always be freedom to imagine new possibilities and implement them. Now, I ask myself, how do these notions of freedom align with our worldview in modern society? Even though much of our thinking has been influenced by these ideals, and we are much closer to them than were 17th-century Europeans, we still don’t fully embrace all of these freedoms. For example, most of us can’t even imagine a society in which disobedience of the law has no consequences. We tend to have paradoxical ideas about freedom, wherein we all want our personal freedoms but we believe authority, embedded in the government, is absolutely necessary.