CIVITAS RADIX
A society reimagined based on scientific advances and environmental priority.
Food makes us feel at home because it roots us in the world, both socially and physically. In the past such rootedness was literal. Today however, most of us live in cities, far from the land that feeds us. So how does that affect our sense of home?
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When it comes to food, we are natural sharers - and, furthermore, our instinct scales up. When we eat together, we have an inbuilt sense of fairness, taking less than we might otherwise to make sure there’s enough to go round. Sharing food prompts our sense of oneness. Unlike cash, food satisfies us because it unites us, not least because we intuitively know there’s only so much we can store.
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By eating together consciously, we can be both grounded and transported, connected to a greater order of things. We can exist, for a period, both inside and outside time, and we can feel profoundly at home.
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For Epicurus, the pleasure to be gained from satisfying one’s appetite with a simple meal of bread and water was ‘as good as it gets.’
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