b'Berry and Schumacher are but two of the more prominent, recent participants in a vital cultural conversation whose modern roots go back to Thoreau. How do we resist materialism and militarism? How do we relate to the natural world? How do we respond to the untoward impacts of technology? In the current era of the internet and globalization, such fundamental matters translate into a new meta-question. As we become increasingly dependent on global capital markets, how do we achieve peace of mind, promote community and protect nature? Most of us completely depend on purchasing power for our survival, which leaves us deeply vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the flow of capital via instruments, institutions and markets that are abstract, remote and complex. We dont know where our money comes from or where it goes. We dont know where our everyday basics come from. We dont know who else Siri may be talking to. We are tethered to technological and economic systems so vast, so laced with visible and invisible intermedi-ation, so riddled with ever-accelerating change that they are impossible to fully comprehend or manage. So, we Brexit. We Occupy. We don red hats. We don pink hats. We dance with clickbait and trolls. We chase outdated political ideologies down gerrymandered rabbit holes. We watch, with a combination of 8'