Comments on: More Free Range Humans Needed http://www.endgame.org.uk/2009/06/more-free-range-humans-needed/ the only solution is a change of culture Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:36:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dana http://www.endgame.org.uk/2009/06/more-free-range-humans-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Dana Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:55:28 +0000 http://www.endgame.org.uk/?p=757#comment-543 "There are two components to human nature, the social and the solitary. The solitary is definitely the more highly evolved, and humanity has surged forward through the efforts of brilliant loners and eccentrics. Their names live on forever precisely because society was unable to extinguish their brilliance or to thwart their initiative." And thanks to them we're now in this mess, because they're the ones who swam against the current when we were relatively in harmony with our environment and pushed us to behave differently. He speaks of the nobility of the solitary, then says human beings are supposed to be grouped in small families, which isn't the same as being solitary. But then, it never boiled down to two choices, individualism and herd mentality. There was always another way. “There are two components to human nature, the social and the solitary. The solitary is definitely the more highly evolved, and humanity has surged forward through the efforts of brilliant loners and eccentrics. Their names live on forever precisely because society was unable to extinguish their brilliance or to thwart their initiative.”

And thanks to them we’re now in this mess, because they’re the ones who swam against the current when we were relatively in harmony with our environment and pushed us to behave differently.

He speaks of the nobility of the solitary, then says human beings are supposed to be grouped in small families, which isn’t the same as being solitary. But then, it never boiled down to two choices, individualism and herd mentality. There was always another way.

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