The question of intentional choice is buried in the mud of marketing; whether that marketing is political, religious or mercantilistic. Humans are losing their ability to find useful creativity for themselves and succumbing to purchased lives and ideas, with a slight uplift by their manipulated instinctive desires driving individuals to develop ways to get money/friends/prizes through personal efforts of ‘individualized’ conformity.
Deeply lost is the usefulness of the human being to its environment’s future resources, as evolutionary science shows us. Diversity and creativity are important factors that allow humans to find an infinitely expanding enjoyment of the universe. When these arts are only applied to money and the politics of extraction economics, individuals feel lost and useless as they try to conceive a future world that needs them.
We all sense that something is backward about the modern world’s prioritization systems, but we keep looking for some magical answer to come from ‘on high’ or to be divined from complicated systems of humanism. Unfortunately, the human isn’t the most important thing to worry about. Our future depends on becoming a species that sees itself as a servant of the universe, rather than a customer.
There just isn’t enough oil to make enough money for everyone to buy clean air and a whole new planet. Yet, that’s what every politician is selling and every religion seems to be praying for.
We need to look no further than the soil to understand our part in the world. Above that, our imagination can make wonderful things. Knowing when it’s imaginary and seeing what’s not is the first step. Look down. See what lives without us. See what we cannot live without. It’s a dirty job. Cleanliness is next to godliness because civilized people believe they are no longer responsible for the dirt that feeds them.
As soon as a human society forgets its dependence on the dirt of natural processes, it is well lost, and the psychological disturbances proliferate, especially if there is monetization (separation of personal value from labors).
Most people have difficulty making sense of the world because a species that separated itself from nature is senseless. Nature will eventually reestablish the connection, but the jolt will probably kill us.
