Oneness per tradition, has become coopted by woo-ness. It's one thing to say we are connected to everything, but quite another to teach people the physics and actuality of science that we should be embracing rather than just teaching people to close their eyes and 'hope' they magically learn something. The latter is more profitable because it has almost zero overhead. Western religions learned long ago that they could sell a product they never have to actually produce: and they can deduct it from their taxes.

We have a system that encourages individuation in order to get people to fill up their separate universes with shiny, noisy crap they don't need while the soil and communities under their feet decay or catch fire.

Thanks for the article. You can turn this into a series, I think. There's plenty of fodder for discussing the difference between imaginary connectedness, profitable connectedness, and actual sensible connectedness in the real world.

We want to blame the Q-tips, but the rest of us are just as deep in the earwax of consumerism that turned people's brains to mush.

Free markets of tax-deductible propaganda are apparently free from reality.