Everyone has heard the phrase there are some things only a child can know. That's because at one point as a child we did not know that we were "not perfect", that we "were not one with the universe" or "shooting stars." To paraphrase the Paul McCartney song Live and Let Die we could say "Live and let Live" because our hearts were an open book quiet literally; only goodness could come in. Then, another variable intruded: society.

Now, obviously, within our construct of society, children need to learn how to read and learn organization and social skills - that is, because society is the way it is. However, with economies collapsing as working hours rise and government corruption rising to a level where nothing surprises many of us, we may be forced to reconsider the way it is or the way it is will be altered for us.

As civilizations have learned in the past, societies crumble as they become pressure cookers that burst with revolt when people mentally just can't take it anymore. The solution to prevent a possible extreme scenario, a revolution, is a return to the constitution, where the founding fathers collective and extraordinary wisdom and vision realized that education had to be kept at the very local level completely unregulated - otherwise, governments would merely exploit the position to create conformity. They wanted homeschooling basically - or at the very least no government involvement whatsoever in education.

To take it a step further, perhaps we need to return to Walden Pond, and the wisdom gained by Henry David Thoreau that anyone could live life like a fairy tale if they learned to pause and see things for what they are - not attaching an arbitrary meaning or value to it. It may seem like going backwards, but in a way it would be going forwards at a personal level and in terms of happiness.

Thoreau was quoted as saying that man living in accordance with nature is energetic and frolicking, and much like birds that sing while building their nests, so would people if they were able to dig deep down to the root level and let go of ego and artificially constructed value systems.

At the time when Thoreau became concerned with American society, the industrial revolution was in full swing and began to praise artificial production for production's sake even though it was contributing to deforestation and the commodification of mankind. To what end would this lead? Well, you could take it all the way to frightening science fiction scenarios such as "The Terminator."

If the economy collapses and our notion of society goes with, as it looks like it will have to inevitibily, and as many of the modern technologies, conveniences, tradtitions and meaningless values that we adore lead to our increased voluntary enslavement and possible destruction, we may soon be faced with a choice of going back to nature or losing our minds the more detached we become from our real roots - mother nature.

After all, even the greatest architecture in the world is not as advanced in its beauty as a forest or mountain, as these objects of nature cannot be measured geometrically, and within the rivers, forests, and oceans lie the ingredients for our very survival. We have the knowledge and means to reverse our trend towards destroying this very nature that we are a part of, but a refusal to let go of traditions, myths and materialism holds us back, and this letting go process can only happen one person at a time. Perhaps an awareness of it is all it will take - we've evolved in the past, and can do it again.