This is beautiful. It also answers the question I posed to you yesterday in wonderful detail, so thank you.
I believe that human society evolved to need both sorts of people, the rooted and the restless. Because we do not work as lone individuals but only as social groups. And sometimes the group needs to stay put, to know how that patch of land works in intimate detail so it can be exploited to the full and provide a period of security. And sometimes the group needs to move on and find new and better places. So we need both people who say 'here is good, let us stay' and those who say 'I wonder what is over the horizon'. But in a small tribe everyone would always be aware that both mindsets existed, and would have found ways to make each decision for the group as a whole.
I think that balance has somehow got out of kilter. Society has fragmented and it is too easy for too many people to only know people like themselves in mindset. I am pleased and optimistic because the internet allows us to reach out to one another and learn the other POV again.
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I believe that human society evolved to need both sorts of people, the rooted and the restless. Because we do not work as lone individuals but only as social groups. And sometimes the group needs to stay put, to know how that patch of land works in intimate detail so it can be exploited to the full and provide a period of security. And sometimes the group needs to move on and find new and better places. So we need both people who say 'here is good, let us stay' and those who say 'I wonder what is over the horizon'. But in a small tribe everyone would always be aware that both mindsets existed, and would have found ways to make each decision for the group as a whole.
I think that balance has somehow got out of kilter. Society has fragmented and it is too easy for too many people to only know people like themselves in mindset. I am pleased and optimistic because the internet allows us to reach out to one another and learn the other POV again.