My good friend and mentor Arthur Haines is back on the show to cover the topic of community. In our popular “How to Feed Your Human” series from last season of ReWild Yourself podcast, we briefly touched on the topic of community and so many of you reached out wanting us to go deeper. In this interview, Arthur joins me in-studio to delve into this fundamental and vital topic to the ReWilding lifestyle.
EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
- What is community?
- War and peace
- The 9 traits of community:
- Place in common
- Hunter-gatherers were nomadic
- Small groups
- Low population density
- Political structure
- Equal wealth distribution
- Division of labor
- Sharing
- Cohesion
- Sharing fosters strong community
- Cultivating wisdom
- Establishing egalitarian communities
- The benefits of community
- The oak, the squirrel & the weavil
- Arthur’s vision for community
- Arthur’s prognosis for the human species