🌲Fæġer Mæġden🌲 on Nostr: If competition is the correct relation of creatures to one another and to the earth, ...
If competition is the correct relation of creatures to one another and to the
earth, then we must ask why exploitation is not more successful than it is.
Why, having lived so long at the expense of other creatures and the earth, are
we not healthier and happier than we are? Why does modern society exist
under constant threat of the same suffering, deprivation, spite, contempt, and
obliteration that it has imposed on other people and other creatures? Why do
the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together? And why,
in consideration of this decline of our worldly flesh and household, our “sinful
earth,” are we not healthier in spirit?
earth, then we must ask why exploitation is not more successful than it is.
Why, having lived so long at the expense of other creatures and the earth, are
we not healthier and happier than we are? Why does modern society exist
under constant threat of the same suffering, deprivation, spite, contempt, and
obliteration that it has imposed on other people and other creatures? Why do
the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together? And why,
in consideration of this decline of our worldly flesh and household, our “sinful
earth,” are we not healthier in spirit?