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Written by: Thomas Sievers ( Philosophy & Sustainable Food ) As we have seen throughout history, humans are inclined to be civilized. We are social animals that have proven to have safety in numbers. The safety that we provide one another in a community based system has evolved into a much more complex social system. A system where what we need to survive can be found one mouse click away, or by simply jumping into a car. By living in cities we have lost a great amount of con

Written by: Thomas Sievers ( Philosophy & Sustainable Food ) Our Modern Condition – An Introduction Humankind is existentially lost in a sea of technology. Our population has never been bigger than it currently is and we live closer together than any tribe could have ever anticipated to be possible. Modern cities can be seen as the epicenters of technology and while it is not a vice in and of itself, our lust for technology has come to rule our lives. It has divorced us from

Written by: Thomas Sievers Introduction Humanity reached a critical point in our brief existence when the population of the urban environment surpassed that of the rural. Never before has our species lived as far away from that which gives us life than we currently do. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2016), 97% of the United States’ land area is rural, but contains only 19.3% of the population. That means roughly 80% of Americans live in cities. Albert Borgmann character