The war humanity is waging on all other species has already killed much of the ecosystem. The superorganism is dying. Rather than celebrating our shared chemical and genetic lineage, we have been in war with other life forms since the beginning of time. Our track record is one of genocide and extinction, because this is the natural role we see for ourselves within the superorganism: we view ourselves as a predatory entity which must pursue conflict if it wants to survive. But conflict is a false narrative constructed to justify the myth of human supremacy.
In the name of this narrative of conflict, we committed unfathomable crimes towards millions of species who had an equal stake in this planet. The complete annihilation of entire ecosystems is a chilling crime we can never erase from our record. This crime was not a side effect of civilisation, progress, or other excuse. It was a deliberate genocide perpetrated by the greatest minds, leaders and technologies humanity ever produced.
Extinction is not something we can undo or apologize for. Each time we make another organism extinct we commit a crime which transcends the present and erases 3.8 billion years of evolution.
We have chased too many species down the path to oblivion for far too long. Our conflict with the natural world has always been a manufactured narrative. Nature was the external enemy our civilisation desperately sought to justify its expansion through slash and burn colonialism and capitalism. Narratives of conflict, violence and human supremacy became interwoven into one big Civilisational Lie which became the rulebook of humanity’s relationship with the planet.
Establishing and maintaining inequality was key to civilisational development because there is always more profit to be made from the weak, vulnerable and desperate. What we call civilization would collapse without the exploitation, monetization and weaponization of the misfortune of those with less mental and physical capital, whether they are human or non-human. Our predatory psychonomy was therefore largely founded upon cannibalism towards less fortunate humans. Empires relied on narratives of conflict hastily and clumsily woven upon racial or species differences, giving themselves the licence to destroy. Political, social and religious institutions were also founded upon these narratives, which they have used for the subjugation of other species and human races. Our popular consumerist culture may look superficial, but it rests on an immovable bedrock of narratives of conflict and human supremacy which are vital to necrocapitalism.
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All life is related. All life formed from a universal seed. We eat our relatives to survive personally. Built in there are checks and balances that resemble a kind of honor system. We have become dishonarable. We are the “fallen”. We have become the grim reaper of life on earth. We have become death. We suffer from a distorted perspective of reality. We believe we are separate life forms from all the rest. We suffer from a fatal mind virus. We are easily hypnotized into following the “kings” of death. We are deeply prone to the power of suggestion. So called “civilization” has infantiled us. We need the “daddy” figure to tell us what to do. Whether that be our imaginary creator in the sky or our supreme leader of the “death cult” you happen to find yourself born into. Independant thinking is not allowed. One must obey thousands of rules spelled out by your particular version of the “death cult” you find yourself in if you expect to get fed. If food has become private property you know you are in a “death cult”. Wake up everyone ! Love Rick
lf you were born into the ” civilization cult ” you were not born “free”. You were born a “resource” to be used by that particular version of the “civilization cult” for the benefit of the hierarchy of the “cult”. So called ” civilization ” is the “human use of human beings” and every other “material” animate or inanimate on the planet, for the perpetuation of the human death cult. Not all biological mutations have long term viability. Good luck everyone. Remember there is no “other”. All is “one”. All form is animated by a singular source. UNIVERSE is a singularity. Love Rick.
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While I agree with the general premise that in the long run our abuse of the environment is going to bite us on the ass, I don’t think we should be quite so moralistic about the arguments. I’ve watched too many nature documentaries to ignore how cruel animals can be to each other, especially when large predators are teaching their cubs how to hunt. Species expand not until they achieve balance, but until they encounter sufficient resistance to their expansion, which we then call the natural balance. Humanity hasn’t encountered such resistance since the development of technology, but if the ecology collapses, we will have, but it will be too late, so we should use our capacity for rational thought to change our behavior before then.
“Before then” would have meant the 1950s, before the full implementation of Plastics, which WILL end almost all life in the near future. This was a FATAL irreversible error. It’s too late, dearies.
Hi George,
if I were conceited enough to be willing to consider that I had largely by chance come up with a actionable systemic change that held out the potential to address many of our human civilisational problems thanks to being AuDHD and excelling at pattern recognition, augmented by the latest AI and considered you someone capable of grasping both it’s simplicity and remarkable complexity, how might I best attempt to convey this to you?