And
George continues to amaze me with phrases like “Thus we box ourselves out of
the natural world”. We truly do. Think of how we have structured every part of
our current way of living, even intervening nature's peace with farming and other
domesticated structured practices. Nature inspires freedom, inspires
creativity- why wouldn’t we want to inspire that to our current world? Don’t
you think that most of our current problems are caused by the way we have
organized ourselves and tried to compartmentalize each and every one of our surroundings?
The fictitious interconnectedness we
have created among a compartmentalized network is as ironic as the way we
interact with nature. We love animals, yet we drink their milk, eat their meat
and etc. We love nature, yet we continue to build concrete and seek for that
urban progress, that is just a fallacy. Capitalism has led us to forget of our
beginnings in this world, which started among rural areas. Before we all looked into
being self-efficient by producing our own goods, and working the hours necessary
to sustain a comfortable living. Fast forward to now… we are not self-efficient-
we depend on capitalism to feed us, train us and lead the way. Material items
have gained more value than our own leisure and sanity.
Is this
the world we want to continue to live in? Better yet, is this the world we want
to leave for future generations? Should we start to look at things from a
different perspective? As I grow professionally, I continue to
notice how our values have been misconstrued and mislead by that wonderful free-market
which continues to imprison our happiness. It’s ok, if you disagree with my
statements… but before you go back to your imprisoned self and to your daily
routine please read and ponder on the following paragraph from the article Back
to Nature:
“We
become resistant to the experiences that nature has to offer; its spontaneity
and serendipity, its unscripted delights, its capacity to shake us out of the
frustrations and humiliations, which are an inevitable product of the
controlled and ordered world we have sought to create. We bully the living
world into the grids we impose on ourselves. Even the areas we claim to have
set aside for nature are often subjected to rigid management plans, in which
the type and the height of the vegetation is precisely ordained and, through
grazing or cutting or burning, nature is kept in a state of arrested
development to favour an arbitrary assemblage of life over other possible
outcomes. Nothing is allowed to change, to enter or leave. We preserve these
places as if they were jars of pickles”
Let's get creative and make some pickleback shots!
Let's get creative and make some pickleback shots!
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