This is another great Western lie. We’re actually evolved for cooperation, not individualism. In moments of stress and crisis we really see this come out. We’ve been around for a couple hundred thousand years or so, pretty much the way we are today.

And that essential mistake that mankind has enshrined is the fiction of an independent self—a self over all, over nature, over groups that we marginalize, over the partners and children we crazily try to control, over the neighbors with whom we compete, over the planet we disrespect. That is our potentially fatal error. We will awaken, or we will h