TFM REWIND Gina Chick

Well, I think...

For me...

Humans have been homo sapiens for 350,000 years.

For 340,000 of those years, we were hunter-gatherers.

So we lived in small bands that moved across the landscape, getting our needs met from the land and from our ceremonies and tools of connection with each other, with the land, with a purpose greater than self, whatever you want to call it.

And that's how we survived for 340,000 years until we started breaking ground and growing things.

And so like for me, the wisdom of a human is that like in my DNA, I know what it is to have to get my needs met from the land, as does every living thing except us, except modern humans.

We go down to the supermarket.

We don't have any sense of where our food comes from.

We don't have a sense of actually harvesting it ourselves most of the time.

And we live in walls now.

because we have to store our calories.

So we're not moving across the landscape.

We've got fridges and we've got freezers and we've got, you know, supermarkets.

We've got all the things.

And that means that we have to keep them safe.

We've got, you know, we've developed this culture of walls.

So we don't know what the weather's doing.

We can't hear what the birds are saying.

We've taken our natural capacity to feel out to the edge of a horizon.

And we said, no, you've got to stop here in these walls.

We live in boxes.

And now we live in boxes, which means we're disconnected from our village.

We're disconnected from nature.

We're disconnected from the stars.

Well, I think...

For me...

Humans have been homo sapiens for 350,000 years.

For 340,000 of those years, we were hunter-gatherers.

So we lived in small bands that moved across the landscape, getting our needs met from the land and from our ceremonies and tools of connection with each other, with the land, with a purpose greater than self, whatever you want to call it.

And that's how we survived for 340,000 years until we started breaking ground and growing things.

And so like for me, the wisdom of a human is that like in my DNA, I know what it is to have to get my needs met from the land, as does every living thing except us, except modern humans.

We go down to the supermarket.

We don't have any sense of where our food comes from.

We don't have a sense of actually harvesting it ourselves most of the time.

And we live in walls now.

because we have to store our calories.

So we're not moving across the landscape.

We've got fridges and we've got freezers and we've got, you know, supermarkets.

We've got all the things.

And that means that we have to keep them safe.

We've got, you know, we've developed this culture of walls.

So we don't know what the weather's doing.

We can't hear what the birds are saying.

We've taken our natural capacity to feel out to the edge of a horizon.

And we said, no, you've got to stop here in these walls.

We live in boxes.

And now we live in boxes, which means we're disconnected from our village.

We're disconnected from nature.

We're disconnected from the stars.