How the Cook and the Gardener Saved the World

We humans have a great deal more potential than we use. This is the third Comment on the Allegory of the Three Travelers The first Comment is about Coming of Age The second Comment is about Repairing the Vessel We humans have a great deal more potential than we use. We are clever creatures able to adapt to the circumstances in which we find ourselves.  Those circumstances, the pattern of interactions among the living things that share our place in the world, only requires a small part of our potential.  Perhaps each of us has a fantasy of a different pattern that allows us to flourish. The way we have structured the world is that each human needs a job that pays money.  Each job requires a different set of skills but none requires all that we can be as human beings.  The most challenging jobs that pay the most are specialties.  They require the specialist to learn in great depth a narrow band of the spectrum of human knowledge.  Most jobs pay less and require less. When ou

This is the second comment on the Allegory of the Three Travelers The first comment is Coming of Age _____ Sometimes I just want to take someone by the shoulders and shake them. "Why can't you see?" But, if you can't see you can't see . . . the shaking won't help. The vessel that carries life through time is the living system on this planet.  The vessel is running down because of the way we humans produce the things we need. The vessel is a complex pattern of interactions.  For reasons of expediency we want to simplify things.  And as we simplify things the life drains from the vessel.  It is sad to see something that could be so robust wasting away for lack of vision.  Its like watching a parent lose their vitality except that the wasting of the vessel is not inevitable.  The vessel begins to heal as individuals find new ways to interact.  New interactions increase complexity. Why is it so hard to see that the vessel requires complexity to mai