It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

To think, if one was to give a report on the state of humanity, yes, in our evolutionary process, yes, we have also managed to instill complex value systems of divisiveness......What should we be judged on......What should we as a species be defined by...... The hummingbird still feeds on the leftover flowers in our garden, the rabbits darted away and the neighbor's cat gave me the eye, when I went outside this morning...

Hierarchy and discipline gave shape to the world;that was what he had always believed.Life was made easy by adherence toa rigid structure.But maybe that only really worked when you were at the top of the ladder,when you were doing well.The further down the rungs you went,the more of a victim of circumstances you became and the less it mattered whether or not you were in control.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.