##### [[How Did We Get Into This Mess]]: > Only with the development of [[Farming]] did we have to [[discipline]] ourselves to think linearly: following a plan from one point to another across weeks or months. Before long we were ploughing in straight lines, making hedges and ditches and tracks in straight lines, building houses and then towns in straight lines. Now almost every aspect of our lives is lived within grids, either concrete or abstract. Linearity, [[Control]] and management dominate our lives. We fetishise [[progress]]: a continuous movement in the same direction. We impose our lines on the [[messy]], contradictory and meandering realities of the human world, because otherwise we would be completely lost in it. We make [[Compartmentalise|compartments]] simple enough, amid the labyrinths we have created, to navigate and understand. `Concepts:` `Knowledge Base:`