It is true that humanity has screwed up big time when it comes to civilizing nature, the two concepts being revisited and redefined all the time for different purposes or agendas. I still believe, though, that nature at its best, at ease, is a freaking scary thing.
Thus, a part of me thanks the creative minds of men and women who have made it possible for us to shelter against storms, to communicate despite great distances, and to find cures for all kinds of diseases (and I know some may argue that we would not need any of that had we remained one with nature).
My mind can’t go that far to figure out what our lives would be had humans not invented anything that would modify nature in any form.
When you have lived all your life in a Latin American country and you see how we “dispose” of our trash, then of course you want to curse humanity and destroy every single product that generates garbage in this world
Discordant tropes
puppeteer me to the point
of agonized witnessing
We have witnessed the emergence of a propaganda machine that has embossed on our very skin and mind the brands we crave for so that our world sinks deeper. I believe it can be done differently without getting rid of the creative ideas. We should be able to contaminate less and interfere less in nature’s course, but the masses do not think, and it would require the masses to do something about everything.
This much is true
Every simple joy
made meaningless by barriers erected
And in the case of the natives or original peoples around the world, this much is also true
Wherever cyborg-vision goes,
fair hatreds intersected.
It can also apply to military interventions and other forms of political and economic invasion. In short, we have a certain anomaly as a species that prevents us from living a happy life within the confines of our immediate geography. At some point we get bored with what we have and not only feel curious about what lies beyond our limits, but we want that and we want to change it at our will.
Is it human nature? Would attempting to change it be as absurd as trying to stop dogs from peeing everywhere marking their territories or digging holes in the dirt regardless of the flowers that grew there before?
I don’t know, but I know that individually I can contribute my share by avoiding hurting nature, piling garbage in the streets, or supporting those companies that destroy and contaminate and exploit. That may not be much, but it allows me to look at nature in the eye and sleep at ease.