My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought #2.
I've been reading the book The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent and it talks about how with the advent of agriculture, we developed the concept of boundaries and lines and squares. As long as we were hunters and gatherers, we saw the world as fluid – boundaries were permeable and everything was sort of a curve. But with agriculture, when we started growing things and having our own fields, we needed to determine what was ours and what wasn't. And that's when boundaries and squares and straight lines were invented.
So it's interesting to think since we were born in that system, that we see it as being inevitable. That's just our world. And it makes me wonder what kinds of boundaries and straight lines have we inherited and put in our stories and how could that be different?
