Civilization is the cheat. It is a system that isolates humans from the risks and response abilities of the environment that spawned us.

Money is a tool that amplifies the isolation from resources.

Underneath, it's the concept of consumerism (colonialism) that destroys our sense of reality.

If all of the overhead costs of civilization were incorporated into sales tax, people could make informed choices about their own useful participation in the world.

Civilization is an isolated laboratory environment that is running out of food pellets and electricity for the rats who have wires (advertising) connected directly to their pleasure centers.