We´ve moved from the small, wood cabin surrounded by thickets to a two-story adobe home surrounded by flowers. But the bucket toilet remains. In many ways, our industrial, consumer focused civilization continues to be characterized by the myth of the frontier. One of the propitious, though reproachful, aspects of our modern-day civilization is that excess and surplus abounds. Our industrial civilization, however, has forfeited any sense of correct scale for extravagance, excess, and intemperance.

Source: Huffington Post September 10, 2017 13:52 UTC