The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxists and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

The Call of the Wild

We civilized folk have it pretty good. Our water is clean, drinkable, and usually free of

infectious microbes. The streets are paved, flat, and dotted with signs indicating our location

and lamps to illuminate our way at night. All the food we could ever need or desire is a car ride, a bus ticket, or a phone

call away. We have machines that safely store this food for months and even years, wash and

dry our dirty clothes, shoot out hot water to wash our bodies, and maintain whichever ambient

temperature we choose. And those are just the basics,

food, shelter, and water. When it comes to leisure time, to entertainment, we have it really good.

Our televisions, tablets, laptops, and phones stream tens of thousands of high-definition movies and TV shows.

The collective output of the world's musicians, past and present, is also available for

instant streaming or downloading, and we can fit thousands of books on an e-reader that fits

in your back pocket. If you'd rather not pay for any of this stuff, libraries,

let us borrow books, movies, TV shows, and music for free. We've also got video games,

board games, card games, sports, parks, swimming pools, surfboards, skateboards, snowboards,

mountain bikes, road bikes, fixies, inline skates, museums, art galleries, blogs, skateboards, snowboards, mountain bikes, roadbikes, fixies, inline skates, museums,

art galleries, blogs, Twitter feeds, newspapers, magazines, and literally hundreds of other

enjoyable and engaging devices, hobbies, resources, and physical and mental pursuits,

perfect for whittling away our free time.

If the safe interiors of our constructed societies represent the pinnacle of human achievement,

comfort and cultural innovation, why do we rock climb? Why do we go helicopter skiing?

Why do we tune into television shows depicting humans trying to survive on a

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