radon1 wrote:
It's not like people on both sides would not go for saving the world from consumerism if given a reason and/or place. Particularly, given their apparent activism.
The irony is that consumerism, all that stuff beyond the basic needs of survival, at its most fundamental is a compensation for living the drudgery of being harnessed to the economic matrix that feeds it. Harnessed to jobs that bring no joy or wellbeing and then you compensate that compromised existence by consuming useless shit.
The irony is that this consumption, on a massive scale practiced by billions of modern Kudzu Apes, destroys the pristine natural ecosystems that are the very remedy to this pandemic of spiritual impoverishment.
Put any of these consumers into the pristine boreal forests of the far northern hemisphere, like in the video you shared, and within a day or two the beauty and harmony of such a place acts like an elexir, calming the soul, calming that hungry appetite for consumption.
Most of consumption is like fast food, it tastes good and fills you up temporarily but leaves you feeling empty and not really nourished.
There are 1.5 million acres of wilderness around me reminding me of this on a daily basis. There are folks from many nationalities who visit us, almost all express a sense of awe at the sweet sweet space here empty of human landscapes. Most comment on the deep peace they feel after a day or two here.
Most never leave their Kudzu Ape landscapes, the drudgery of their meaningless jobs, the hours spent a day on social media, the trips going shopping to consume useless shit to compensate for their misery. Most of modern humanity is spiritually impoverished.
We are breeding an ever growing percentage of the human population living in urban or suburban areas with no direct relationship with the natural world, where nature has become an abstraction.
I have always stated clearly that at its source human ecological overshoot represents a spiritual deficit that reduces modern humans to unfulfilled consumers.
We never really do want to open up this discussion and explore it do we?
Patiently awaiting the pathogens. Our resiliency resembles an invasive weed. We are the Kudzu Ape
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