I have a lot of theories, you know. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
That our real troubles began with settling down into sedentary agricultural life; because that created surpluses, and surpluses = inequality, and Rulers. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
You listen to my notions with Politeness.<\/p>\n
The look on your face and the tone in your voice say:<\/p>\n
Well yes, but so what?<\/em><\/p>\n There are ways in which that is the right question. <\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n You want to know: What then are we to do? We can’t go back now. <\/p>\n So … what?<\/p>\n The ways in which it is the wrong question boil down to this.<\/p>\n You can’t know what to do, without any conviction about what you’ve done, we’ve done. <\/p>\n There is no proper prescribing, without a proper diagnosis.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n When I gesture vaguely and mutter about rewilding and shit, you consider it hand-waving, and you’re not entirely wrong. Just mostly. <\/p>\n Wouldn’t it be more pragmatic to just obey god and get a job for fuckssake?<\/p>\n And I say unto you: Which God, and why?<\/p>\n You offer answers to that one in turn, one way or the other. <\/p>\n “The one true god, ninny.” Or … <\/p>\n “We’ll never know the answer. We’ll just have to do the best we can.”<\/p>\n I don’t find those answering fulfilling, or even marginally satisfying. <\/p>\n As a basis for a theory, as the foundation of a modus vivendi … <\/p>\n I’m actively rejecting them at every step, and trying to not let that mean that I’m rejecting you, too. <\/p>\n Attempting to thread a (nearly?) impossible needle. <\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Anyway, these are the kinds of conversations I want to have for real.<\/p>\n If you don’t share that want, go with your chosen god. <\/p>\n I’ll be of no meaningful use to you, or vice-versa. <\/p>\n How’s that for pragmatic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9783,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}