Sometimes I look around at human behavior gone awry--mass shootings, etc.--and while I know there's a range of factors at work, I wonder if a lot of it can be explained by the possibility that we don't have a lot of good habitat left in which the human animal can thrive.
Urban rewilding? Parkour? Hunt raccoons in the dumpsters among the fallen homeless drug addicts, carefully picking your way through needles and poop?
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It may be one of those things that if we look at it close enough we soon just throw up our hands and walk away muttering stuff about statecraft and scale
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Which is totally unacceptable. Like, it’s so dumb that the main reason I feel safe and secure and well provided for at night is because I graze ranches owned by land-rich families. I just don’t know the broader path forward for people who don’t have this particular vocation.
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Civilized to Death 
will make a 21st century argument that rhymes a bit with Morris’