PaleoDiet 3.05

Paleo is about systems thinking, about seeing ourselves as part of an intricately interconnected whole. Deep Paleo is about sustainability on every level — of our every action, of our every interaction, of everything we put into the world and everything we take from it. A Deep Paleo perspective is a demanding one, because it asks us to question everything that we — and those we care about — hold dear. It asks us to look hard at our lives and our choices, to be self-critical, to be open to radical change.

Most of us have been raised on scripts, social structures, and belief systems that are out of sync with our ancestral programming. We take as sacrosanct many behaviors and institutions that are rooted in relatively recent history — agriculture, inequality, patriarchy, wage-slavery, conspicuous overconsumption. The Deep Paleo movement isn’t going to make all those things vanish overnight. But over time, with conscious and concerted effort, we can narrow the mismatch and expand our possibilities for deep happiness in this modern world. The tenets of the Deep Ecology movement shifted and matured over the years, as will the tenets of Deep Paleo. Let this platform be a marker in time. It is my greatest hope that in 40 years, we’ll be able to look back and see progress.