Progressives delude themselves into thinking that the problems in the current order rest with ideology or just the wrong people being in power. In a similar fashion, the gigantist state controls the people who will ever be allowed in power. Doing things locally allows us to engage in what I call “ecosystemic agriculture”, which rests on the principles of polyculture, biodiversity, respect of the natural constraints, and appreciation of humans’ role as yet another part in the greater system (this is the contextualised human in contrast to the fantasies of the decontextualised human held by individualism and anthropocentrism).