Sunday, 08/19/2018
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23:06 A redoubling
I finished reading Ishmael tonight. An interesting book, with an interesting premise that, effectively, humans are subverting evolution with our need to control our own destiny. I'm not sure what one is supposed to do with that knowledge, but it doesn't necessarily seem wrong.
Humans tend to act as though we own the things of the Earth. In fact, much of our theology centers around our requirement to take care of the Earth, as though it were our charge. But what if we put our trust back into the Earth? What if we only took from it what we needed right now, rather than taking more to ensure our security?
Security from the hazards of life is actually a form of subversion. Animals should be resilient in the face of adversity only to a point. Eventually we all must die, and the reality that some animals die sooner than others never changes. And yet, here we are. Insisting that maybe for us it's different. What if we can keep ourselves alive through a drought, or save our home from a forest fire?