The proposition that Homo Sapiens is ‘separate’ from nature, Origin and the sky is absurd.
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I don’t know where it got started, but I have my suspicions. The problem might even have a reasonably important origin, but, over time, like many things, it warped and become lethally deformed. Perhaps by the cascades of repercussions that emerged from the departures of the contexts and intelligences that oriented its inception(s).
I’m talking about two ideas that are part of the scripting we undergo as children related to ‘what humans are’.
The first idea is that we ‘are different from Nature’, we’re ‘above’ it or something.
The second, which is even more dangerous — deadly, actually, is that we are ‘superior’ to other life forms.
One imagines the fingernail on the pinky of my hand suddenly declaring its sovereignty and righteous dominance over … not merely the rest of my body… but all of life on Earth. And pursuing this bizarre assertion with militant and frenzied single-mindedness.
I envision soon-dead fishes asserting that ‘water doesn’t matter, we’re above all that’. Except that fish cannot really do anything to…
