Our Fight!
Humans 0, Nature 1
It’s been long, far too long, in this idea of our survival-of-the-fittest existence; that is, one in which we live according to a false code of humans vs nature — with us fighting, in a zero-sum game, for our primacy over all other species and organisms.
We have been persistently resting in the hubris of our own magnified reflections and so seem to have left all environmental awareness behind at the door from whence we came into this world.
We have forgotten what it means to be in generous relationship with our ‘natural’ environment, and often think of stewardship as an unnecessary reminder of some heavy responsibility for the well-being of a planet, which is too insignificant for us to concern ourselves with.
Some, in fact, might say that our forgetting is intentional — as opposed to inadvertently learned as part of our socialization into a process of competitive civilization that is founded on conquest — avarice even. Our world is based on the worst kind of narcissism that has us hiding behind multiple fulfillment of material wants (at times masquerading as needs), while we extract just about everything at whatever cost to all species, including our own.
Yes, we have forgotten.
We have chosen to be amnesiacs, sleepwalking in our modes of being ‘busy as the bees’ we…
