I No Longer See Descartes' Statement As

A Culture That Values Production Over Life Values The Wrong Things, Because It Will Produce Things At The Expense Of Living Beings, Human Or Otherwise.

Premise Eight: The Needs Of The Natural World Are More Important Than The Needs Of The Economic System.

To Be Clear, Civilization Is Not The Same As Society. Civilization Is A Specific, Hierarchical Organization Based On 'power Over.' Dismantling Civilization, Taking Down That Power Structure, Does Not Mean The End Of All Social Order. It Should Ultimately Mean More Justice, More Local Control, More Democracy, And More Human Rights, Not Less.

The Stories We Are Told Shape The Way We See The World, Which Shapes The Way We Experience The World.

You Can Rarely Prove Something To Someone Who Does Not Want To See It Proven, And Even More To The Point, You Can Almost Never Prove Something To Someone Who Has Financial Or Ideological Reasons To Not See It Proven.