We adapt to the industrial and the post-industrial world with energy software designed for living in the wild. In spite of new challenges in our world, we often respond using the fight or flight strategy even if this is not applicable. Take for example my present lifestyle. For many years in the apartment where we used to live for almost thirty years I had a small garden. There was a space apart from our living quarters where I could walk around talking to my plants. There were demarcation lines separating Nature from the daily grind.

Our condo on the thirty-seventh floor, comfortable and elegant as it is breathes of confinement. I sometimes feel as one with the factory workers even of modern times. My introversion makes me enjoy the comfortable isolation of our condo. Nobody can disturb me except the young men who deliver our laundry and our meals. Even then they are subjected to screening first by the guards at the entrance then by the guards in barong at the lobby. What a sanitized life! Continue reading →