What we had in the hut and lost when we moved to the palace

When we all lived in the hut all things were, apparently, simpler. Rooms were multi-functional, less to clean, less to maintain. There was no need to show off since everyone had a hut and nobody was either on the streets, nor in a palace. Leaders that presumably had bigger huts were not questioned, nor envied since leadership succession was extremely structured and often hereditary.

Fast forward some thousand years later, we now have proud democracy and an equality peppered with envy and ambition while homelessness and opulence have been shamelessly added to the repertoire of human habitation.

What we had to give up though is the fluid lifestyle with interpersonal close links and permanent ties to nature that now we struggle so much to rekindle through wellness, self-help books and structured socializing.

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