by Justin McAfee Industrial civilization teaches a simple story: you are an individual. Self-contained. Self-sufficient. A single, bounded unit moving through a world of other bounded units. This is the myth that underwrites everything… capitalism, productivity culture, the cult of personal branding, even the way we imagine “nature” as a scenery of separate objects. But step outside at dawn and watch a bird for three seconds. The goldfinch flashing across my yard this morning was not “one...