Civilization isn't Civilized (And What We Can Do About It)

As we continue to push forward advancing our technology, we lose our connections to the natural world and our place in it. Our modern societies are furthering our disconnect from our world.

I’m a gamer, by nature. When I was growing up, I spent many, many a Saturday afternoon gaming. It’s been a hobby of mine for 30 years now. I’m very much a solitary gamer, preferring single-player RPGs over co-op games.

If you’ve seen my Substack, I have been currently working my way (backwards) through the Horizon Zero Dawn/Horizon Forbidden West games. I promise, this is relevant to the nature of this article. The premise, for those who don’t know, is that we essentially nuked ourselves back to the Bronze Age, and the game takes place about 1000 years after humanity’s near extinction, where we live in tribal societies again. The game is also “Rich people fuck everything up and fuck off to space,” but that is less important to what I’m talking about now, and more relevant to reality, unfortunately.

The other night, I was a little inebriated (OK, I was …