I have a lot of theories, you know.

Going way back to the conviction that as individuals and a collective species we were much better off fourteen thousand years before present. And that the Gaea was, too.

That our real troubles began with settling down into sedentary agricultural life; because that created surpluses, and surpluses = inequality, and Rulers.

That inequality and -archy in any form thus become the norm, and make us insane or at the very least incapable, or unwilling, to think outside the Boxes they turn into.

That the failure of our noble physics to comprehend what consciousness even is … is a direct product of that blinkered madness, that inability or unwillingness to See.

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You listen to my notions with Politeness.

The look on your face and the tone in your voice say:

Well yes, but so what?

There are ways in which that is the right question.

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You want to know: What then are we to do? We can’t go back now.

So … what?

The ways in which it is the wrong question boil down to this.

You can’t know what to do, without any conviction about what you’ve done, we’ve done.

There is no proper prescribing, without a proper diagnosis.

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When I gesture vaguely and mutter about rewilding and shit, you consider it hand-waving, and you’re not entirely wrong. Just mostly.

Wouldn’t it be more pragmatic to just obey god and get a job for fuckssake?

And I say unto you: Which God, and why?

You offer answers to that one in turn, one way or the other.

“The one true god, ninny.” Or …

“We’ll never know the answer. We’ll just have to do the best we can.”

I don’t find those answering fulfilling, or even marginally satisfying.

As a basis for a theory, as the foundation of a modus vivendi …

I’m actively rejecting them at every step, and trying to not let that mean that I’m rejecting you, too.

Attempting to thread a (nearly?) impossible needle.

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Anyway, these are the kinds of conversations I want to have for real.

If you don’t share that want, go with your chosen god.

I’ll be of no meaningful use to you, or vice-versa.

How’s that for pragmatic?