Conditioned to Be Passive

image by Fred Lehmann (franzl34) free for use under Pixabay’s licence There is only one way in which 8.3 billion human beings, who have utterly terraformed the planet to make us all completely dependent on the massively complex interdependent systems we have constructed — fragile, high-maintenance systems which include technologies capable of exterminating all life on Earth very quickly, can possibly function: We all must do what we’re told. This is not a consequence of some evil conspiracy. Scientists have shown that only tame, domesticated creatures can be trusted to behave calmly when crammed into massively overcrowded unnatural spaces in which they have no agency, no freedom to do what their instincts would naturally drive them to do. Put any other primates in a crowded airplane on a trans-oceanic trip, we are told, and most of them would be dead, murdered by the others, before the plane landed. This ‘civilization’ culture is not how we humans were meant to live, not how our…