The real Americans didn't have a concept of fixed property as we do. Had they, they might well have become filthy rich off of yuge real estate deals. The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau idealized "primitive societies," like those of the Native American tribes his imagination conjured up, with the implication that there was a harmony in the primal state of wo/man now lost (e.g. prehistoric hunter and gatherers).
Well, that idea went out of fashion for a while, but now the idea is back in vogue again (definitely with me, at least). Maybe it's true that people who live outside of the bounds of hyper-complex societies, by birth or by child, are more peaceful: maybe more human, more real, maybe just plain "better."
Maybe this is were we are headed. Back to our home, roots, essential nature. Look at the huge societal changes that are occurring all over at such a dizzying pace right now! Walls may be built; but then they are torn down or erode away with time. Walls are useless and just make me laugh now.
— Gabriel Fenteany, May 30, 2016
