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But the environmental crisis rises closer to home. Every time we draw a breath, every time we drink a glass of water, we are suffering from it. And more important, every time we indulge in, or depend on, the wastefulness of our economy – and our economy’s first principle is waste – we are causing the crisis. Nearly every one of us, nearly every day of his life, is contributing directly to the ruin of this planet.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
But this shifts the clickbait-iness to the level at which “humanness” is assessed. Being human is reduced to something people perform for clicks.
Across the Floors of Silent Seas
Rob Horning
Prior to the Great Disembedding, cultural systems were woven into the living fabric of a people, into their social environment and natural ecology. The people, having been raised in these ideas and thus taking them for granted, did not see the need to justify or universalize their beliefs. Memes (or [memeplexes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memeplex)) only flourished if they helped the tribe flourish (e.g. helped them forage more efficiently, made them better fighters, etc.); gene-culture coevolution was tightly coupled.
The Great Disembedding
Roger’s Bacon
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