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When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to Now for Rewilding in Ireland?
This is the closing line of the very nice article.

> The future is in our hands.

It always has been, and always will be.

The problem, as outlined in the article, is that we (the entire human race) have almost always left it in the hands of our "betters", and those wealthy folks have very rarely given a crap about the rest of us, or our beloved mother Earth.

They think that their having wealth makes their every whim and fancy the right and proper thing to do, and, as the article shows, that is far from the truth.

Of course, we peasants have to, ourselves, learn how to truly be better, truly know how to wield power for the benefit of all human beings, out of compassion for all of our children, and our children's children, ...

"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights." --Peter Tosh

"Love is the truth." --Jack White's song of the same name

you forgot "the victors of War write the history and build their castles", and "cultural forces" including (especially?) those originating among "peasants" .. casting your evolutionary and kind comment as a "peasant" appears to wear a lot of assumptions on the sleeve
There is a huge problem looking at issues as if our entire lens can only go back 150-200 years. Go back a few more hundred years and the lines between rich and poor man’s intent start to blur—especially in Ireland. If all things were equal in delivery to people you would still see some people live in squalor and some learn towards some more refined practices. It doesn't matter.

What does matter is this insufferably march “forward” into a world where we can’t allow such individual will for any number of reasons, effectively neutering any real cultural development.

I’ll paraphrase David Bowie—we should all be happy just picking nuts but here we are.

There is nobody qualified to take on “all” human beings and decide what is right on such a scale. No matter how many honours one adorns oneself with.

Case in point: the kingdom and culture of England doing what it did in the 13th to 20th centuries through the Isles and beyond. It needed to modernize and “bring prosperity” through the poor, rural, gaelic regions who just couldn’t “get with the times”. One should wonder if those “poor” rural folks were ever hard up or unhappy until armies trounced through burning their homes and spoiling their land in the name of modernity.

The questions we need to ask ourselves take the form of silly platitudes:

What would we really do and care about if we had it all and had no more labour and toil before us?

Culture, love, beauty. Things that dont really cost anything and nobody is really inhibited from enjoying as long as they are creative.

And if we are not creative, then none of the vices or devices in the world will ever save us from continually seeking to “fix” it all.

Keep looking for dividing lines in the external and you’ll always find them. But the problem is in the human heart.

(Ironically, trying to convince wealthy tech bros of that is like diving into an acid pit. I can definitely agree that I don’t want my future in their hands. The poets may be crafty but at least they seek truth)