The Big Here and the Long Now by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Holiday From muddy rainforests to star-covered

From muddy rainforests to star-covered night deserts

Are these two providing much-needed distraction to one another—or a disruption to each of their carefully mapped out plans for introspection

with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch

But when they also produce terrifying side effects

The Big Here and the Long Now by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Holiday From muddy rainforests to star-coveredFor thousands of years, humanity's story was one of diversification. Across centuries and continents, our species proliferated new approaches to family and community life; to agriculture, economics, religion, artistic expression, and self understanding. Today, this process is in reverse. Culturally and ecologically, we are witnessing an almost universal drive towards homogeneity and the loss of diversity. The global forces of capitalism have created a