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The wilderness…

Is all around us…

At least it once was…

Full of predators and prey…

Elemental exposures of heat and cold…

Pokey things on the ground,

infectious things all around..

And other natural dangers of every sort…

We survived as a species in this dangerous world because we knew how to.

We found solutions for survival…

Learned from our mistakes…

And we passed knowledge on to future generations…

And while the wilderness has been banished to the fringes of most human society…

The civilized world remains a dangerous place…

And nothing can be more dangerous to a civilized world…

Than forgetting how we got here in the first place.

If we forget that we are here because of our ability to reason,

to learn and to find solutions…

Than we are doomed…

Doomed I tell you!

Doomed in so many ways,

but worst of all,

it will be an ignorant sort of doom…

The most boring doom possible…

One that never sees the threats coming…

and so takes no action…

But thankfully,

there are plenty of un-boring people left in the world…

And right now they are all tuned into…

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