All of those people who want us to think we need to be specialsts have to convince us of this, if they are ever to control us. And that is what they need: control. At the beginning of the last century, it was decided that society could become near-perfect, if it became highly ordered, with everyone in their place, working on keeping things nice and ordered.

This is breaking down in reality. In real life, if you really stand back and look at it, it takes more energy, more time, more forcing and pushing, whip cracking and mutual/-self psychological mutilation to have everyone specialize.

The path of *least resistance* is to generalize. Before Mass Industrialization, I contend that people knew this, and applied it directly. I think that upon the emergence of Mass Industry, that for a brief period, abundant, but depletable resources made it possible for people who controlled those resources to force us all to specialize. But, once those resources started to dwindle, we were told that we are on our own to replace those things that came cheap, easy, and mass produced. Naturally, people start to follow the path of least resistance, to become an adaptive generalist. But, there is litte infrastrucutre, little support for the generalist. Our systems are set up for the specialist, as you discuss in your article above.

This is what I am interested in. Part of what I am concentrating on these days. *It’s up to us to plant thesseds and grow this dynamic societal infrastructure for generalists.* If we can make a better choice, people will likely choose it. People need generalist-centric alternative ways to solve their basic survival problems. We need new ways to “bank”, new ways to grow food, make the things we want and need, research and develop new things, better insights on how to work together as generalists.

This is what I fantasized all of you folks in Ann Arbor might be interested in trying to do. Not an employee is actually a good start, though. It’s a great start. But we need more. Generalists need to know they are not alone, and that if they work together, they can co-create an alternative infrastructure. They can also learn from the past, from the last time(s) that social systems were hijacked and and reformed like a Victorian Garden into the vision of a few people. Figure out how to keep certain resources voluntarily co-governed, commonly available, and immediately useful.