Thanks, Roger, I agree. I think the allure of “more” can sweep us along only so far, and I’d say a ‘martian anthropologist’ might be surprised by just how far along we’ve been swept. But at some point ecological and sociological realities form a wall that’s run up against, and the ideology begins to consume itself and everything around it from the inside out. I think that’s where we are here in the West, and in other economies that emulate.

Thing is, it was clearly never a healthy way to go about living. Viable, lucrative, maybe. But healthy? No. And I think that the past several centuries—at least—of human history can be viewed (in one of many lights) as a repeated denial of that understanding. But we’re running out of ways to deny it, I think. People all over the world have been bearing the brunt of that strain for too long. The Earth groans. I am no apocophile, but it’s not a pretty picture.

More is not always More. I am learning a lot about the Power of Intention - and at its root, it seems to be about figuring out what you Want - and going for it. It is a sad commentary on our society that this Power is so often sold as a way to gain more wealth.

“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”