The World Under Control is the fifth chapter of 📝The Ascent of Humanity by 📝Charles Eisenstein. It follows the logic of 📝control as it extends from external nature into human nature itself.
Beginning from an assumption of human depravity — that we are winners or losers, and that life must be wrested from death — the chapter shows control colonizing every domain: minds molded by schooling, life lived in "the great indoors" and under contract, a war on germs, a war on suffering, childhood spent in a playpen. Eisenstein's recurring point is that control is self-undermining — the more completely we manage the world, the more fragile, sensitized, and anxious we become. Mastery and vulnerability rise together.
Read the full chapter at ascentofhumanity.com.