Reflections

"The more control we exercise over the world, the more sensitive to the world we become. Despite the fact that [dogs] regularly eat off the floor and drink out of toilet bowls, [they] don’t seem to get sick any oftener than we do. [...] A lack of regular challenges to the immune system, on the one hand primes it to become more sensitive while on the other hand depriving it of the exercise it may need to take on a real crisis. The immune system becomes at once more sensitive but less able to deal with real challenges. The parallel with the coddled, over-protected modern human is obvious." ~ Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity[1]

"Our problem-solving efforts only generate more problems, because they are based on extending our control over the environment, bringing more and more of it into the human realm." ~ Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity

Notes

I seek control when I don't feel to have it; rarely in relevant or realistic ways.