The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist

As you’ll discover, this big health orientation is positive, life-affirming, inspirational, and powerfully humane.

When things go wrong, we double down on individualism and personal ambition.

In fact, our bodies are canaries in the coal mine of the modern world. They are screaming out, calling us to change. In this sense, we are our own “sentinel species.”

The same myopic, zoomed-in perspective now appears on the cover of every health magazine. The human body is presented as an individual object, living alone, isolated and abstracted from its life-supporting systems of habitat and tribe. No background, no context, no environment. From what we see on magazine covers, we might well come to the conclusi

Wildness has heart and spirit, guts and gonads. It’s vibrantly alive and unpredictable; when pushed, it might well push back. It connects deeply into human and animal history, into the very spirit of the biosphere. Wildness is exciting, risky, dangerous, exuberant, and in turn, erotic. Wellness is dull and sexually uninspiring. Do you really want t

Above all, identify with your analog nature, the flesh and blood of your body and habitat. Learn your body and your habitat first, before going down the digital rabbit hole. Hone your native senses. You might well be surprised how far you can go with flesh alone.

We say, “This story is flawed at its core.”

Our flat-line lifestyles lead to flattened cognition, flattened creativity, and a flattened spirit. Anhedonia (the loss of pleasure), depression, and cynicism begin to darken our days.

Most importantly, we now know that self-control is a neurophysical capability that’s trainable, just like a muscle.

What happens when the values that are embedded in Mother Culture are actually driving the destruction of habitat and divisions among people? Suddenly,