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Rousseau explains: "The first man who fenced off a plot of land and thought to say, 'This is mine,' and found others stupid enough to believe him, he was the true founder of civil society.” By this he expresses that the development of civilization was actually founded on injustice. Thus, most of the problems we experience even today can be attributed to this fundamental flaw in our system. If we truly want to live in harmony with nature, then we need to return to what is natural for humanity. We need to regress to the organic state of man. In all honesty, if we were to ever return to the state of nature, I believe we would die Human beings have become so dependent on all artificial development, that without it we would not know how to overcome it and resist it. Civilization has become the natural state of