How Agriculture has Shaped Us
“ Pre-agricultural society owed its survival to co-operation, to groups working together. They survived because of the dense web of social contacts and the vast number of reciprocal commitments they maintained.”
I remember writing years ago about how lovely it would be if, for just one month, the whole human world went quiet. I imagined a beautiful stillness descending on the streets, so that we could begin to think again, contemplate our situation, remember what it feels like to be alive, right now, in this astonishing universe. In that time of reprieve from the Great Noise, who knew what transformations might arise, what values would have a chance to emerge, what forms of fairness, or considerations of kindness. We
