• Malcriada Lala@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I wish people would realize that humans only got to where we are because we are a COMMUNAL species. We developed complex language and tool usage BECAUSE we work together. Being “off the grid” is usually isolationist and therefore extremely dangerous. We need community in order to develop and manage the resources we need to survive.

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      1 year ago

      Also, we’re living in kind of an unprecedented part of history that enables is to be independent of other people in ways never before possible. So that gives people a very distorted sense of that, a lack of any notion of the importance of community. And of course this “independence” is achieved by a complete dependence on this huge ubiquitous economic machine.

    • Corhen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      theres a reason why banishment was historically a death sentence. It took communities to prosper!