It is our nature to live in villages, but we are perverted by the "Invisible Fist" of the economic and political systems.

For a half million years, village life has been the optimal strategy for humans winning at the game of life. So why do practically none of us live in villages? It is because huge piles of money can be captured by using propoganda to establish the idea that successful mating requires the ownership of residential property, and then restricting the supply of such property. Wo of this writer's children, as a teenager, asked, "Don't all of the competing advertising messages cancel each other out?" No. There is a bias built in to the system, because only some kinds of messages can be profitably promoted. Not much money can be captured by using propoganda to promote the idea of living simply and frugally and focusing on being good parents and spouses. To be profitable, a message must be tied somehow to making a purchase or a donation. The result is that we are all awash in propoganda that promotes an idiotic, materialistic, high consumption, environmentally toxic way of life that is very far from Pareto Optimal.