12/14/08

Should we feel bad about using the Earth's resources? Animals do not, it given no thought in the fight for survival. The concept doesn't even exist when your attention is devoted solely to evaluating stress and analyzing response with a basic goal stronger(?) than assuaging the conscience. Humanity comes with a price, perhaps; no, let me rephrase that: that which we draw from the Earth - our creativity, our artistic expression and comprehension, our 'prOgress' - is a gift, perhaps...

Perhaps.

How to reconcile, to come up with a way to tame ourselves, our rampancy. Wild, man. Did you know wild comes from a german root meaning "that which will kill you"? OK, it's not a question that we need to come up with SOME approach to resource management, if you could call it that, of course that implies that they are ours in the first place. Water, "food".. Can we create food? Can we ethically occupy space that other parts of nature might use in a way that does not benefit them? What is our justification for something other than absolute servitude to nature: why are we not the guardians of nature but instead war with each other so that it may be US who consumes nature. Resentment carried out through competing destruction.

This notion that we deviate from absolute servitude... The quick, emotionally-driven response is that "...we have to eat, " Yes, we need to sustain, but can we assign some differences to what it is we use to sustain?

Our progress is converting organic matter on the Earth into the form of our species. Each species tries to do this, as they grow bigger than they grow smaller. Equilibrium must have been selected out a long, long time ago. Those which do not replicate and absorb successfully and efficiently become absorbed themselves. Assimilate or be assimilated. But then why ethics? Why do we say, "No, this isn't the way to go."? We're...sedentary, and that means something? We've developed a form of right and wrong? Something that doesn't pertain to just our own success. Or perhaps our ethics was simply meant to keep ourselves as efficient and successful as possible, and has become since obfuscated and transposed onto something else. Can we accept that? It hurts my gut to think to put aside my precautions and PUSHFORWARD. We're...inching forward from the starting gate alongside everyone else who has been made super-successful to talk to them, to say, "Hey! Hey! Don't run! We're not gonna run! We're not gonna...GO!" and then takes off. Just so we get the head start and don't get trampled on or left in the dust - absorbed - by our neighbors, the advanced machines that we have made. We...society. Society does not want us, it was its own continuation. It is not just the organismal that wishes to replicate and absorb, it is the abstract, the theological, the conceptual. To believe it has no life of its own... HAAAAAAAAAAAAA If it does not exist in our minds, it surely exists in others. Religion was not invented by man, it infected man to use as its vehicle. God created the Earth and now he wants it back.

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