Lecciones de un ermitaño, el caso de Christopher Knight

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/lessons-of-the-hermit/517770/

http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit. 

"Finkel quotes a handful of recent scientific studies to argue that Knight’s camp “may have been the ideal setting to encourage maximal brain function.” In her new book, The Nature Fix, about the growing field of environmental-health research, the journalist Florence Williams reports on dozens of studies that find that exposure to nature is “good for civilization.” A few days in nature yields a 50 percent improvement in creativity, increases attention span, and lessens hyperactivity and aggression. Proximity to the ocean correlates with one’s happiness, and mortality rates drop in greener neighborhoods, while traffic noise increases the strain on one’s heart. Put another way, our growing alienation from nature is killing us."

"Knight was largely reluctant to express any inkling of motives or insights gained through his experience, but he did offer, "solitude bestows an increase in something valuable ... my perception. But ... when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There was no audience, no one to perform for ... To put it romantically, I was completely free." 

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De-evolucion

Luke Kemp's anthropological perspectives in just published Goliath's Curse are along the right lines: fundamentally we are an #egalitarian species. That's how we function best. But a mega societal collapse is likely given the Machiavellian psychopaths and narcissists who gain control under the severe inequalities of capitalism. As he says: "I’m pessimistic about the future,” he says. “But I’m optimistic about people.”
This is spot on:
'His first step was to ditch the word civilisation, a term he argues is really propaganda by rulers. “When you look at the near east, China, Mesoamerica or the Andes, where the first kingdoms and empires arose, you don’t see civilised conduct, you see war, patriarchy and human sacrifice,” he says'
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'This was a form of evolutionary backsliding from the egalitarian and mobile hunter-gatherer societies which shared tools and culture widely and survived for hundreds of thousands of years. “Instead, we started to resemble the hierarchies of chimpanzees and the harems of gorillas.”'