"EMAIL TO A COUSIN: ON HOW TO GO ABOUT MY CONSERVATIONIST AGENDA"
Dear M___,
i suppose this email is a sort of reflection or prewriting for a future blog entry. my blog is countercultural, anti-globalist and conservationist. i hope to do with it what i forfeited by dropping out of biology. i wonder if biologists even make very good conservationists in the first place; they admire and revere the wilderness, and they bring it into your home via books and videos, but they do not assault humanism since they tend to be very personable themselves. i am very friendly and personal; my love for people is so intense that i've faced many calamities by taking risks and making sacrifices on that account. but at the same time i associate humanism with anthropocentrism, racism and genocide. i employ darwinian science to take a very hands off approach and attack "development" and "wealth" out of an instinctual affinity for other forms of life outside our arguably indivisible human species.
time and again on my blog i size up the globalist marketplace as simply and utterly a manifestation of a corrupt world order, and even a satanic natural order. and i hope to maintain a consistency in this. if i'm a conservative it's because i'm a pessimist, and if i'm liberal it's because i think "work" should have an ethical imperative that does not necessarily "ease" the life of people because as it unfortunately stands now it kills their evolutionary heritage, and that goes for both the producers and the consumers.
anyway, there's a lot of religious symbolism in the articles, and i've come to grasp over the years that the church at its core is more wildly primitivist than it is technologically progressive, and thus very countercultural indeed and rather in my own tune. i appreciate that its charity is kept bare-bones, though i wish welfare programs weren't exploited for purposes of procreation that have now brought the human population to... what is it? 9 billion? (incidentally, my new pet cat Sully's food consumption has made me realize that i am a very massive mammal indeed, and that i demand loads of calories, putting pressure on our planet even though in other ways i leave a relatively soft ecological footprint.) of course, "legit" economic opportunity explains overpopulation as much as welfare does. very complicated, and of course i've never been outside my own nation, and seldom cincinnati, even.
moving right along, the sciences of anthropology only go so far to arm me with the reasoning i need to push the conservationist agenda. there are 2 ways of pushing it, by the way -- 1, primitivism, and 2, asceticism. the latter is clearly the more effective. as to why, well, it's best to address the former first, the anthropological one. the most effective document ever written in history that would agree best with my bias would be tacitus' "the germania", which records the ways of the aboriginals of northern europe before the roman conquest or the advent of armoured cavalry. germany, and presumably many other indo-european-populated areas, were virtual enviable utopias, something that might inspire a great feeling of rousseauian nostalgia. germans had good hygiene and healthy bodies. they were monogamous and family was taken very seriously, vice never laughed about. also, if a traveler came to your hut, you were a criminal if you were to turn him away. it was the universally understood law that hospitality was absolutely expected from any one. you were even expected not only to feed and shelter the stranger but to give over to him any possession which he asked for other than your weapons (which were the tokens of marriage); furthermore and lastly you were obliged once the visit was concluded to escort him to the next hut where he might stay and introduce him to your neighbor. so: why can't we return to this way of life? you probably already suspect it. it's the same reason that the environment was ecologically stable -- a quite high homicide rate due to constant endemic warfare. as tacitus puts it "they think it tame and stupid to acquire by their sweat what they can purchase by their blood"..."loving indolence and hating peace".
i honestly have no clue where the fearlessness of death has gone in today's global community by and large. we pay it some lip service to be sure, but the funerals of youths are seen generally as tragic occasions whether from combat or otherwise. it might be that war today in its mechanized form is so perverse, or it might be that we are taught to revel in the ecstasy of a beating heart and avoid thinking about our certain mortality in all the glitz and "sexiness" of our supposedly enlightened age.
but individualistic self-preservational mores have won out. so my best weapon is a tempered asceticism, tempered most definitely because only a rabid crank would say that slicing a watermelon on a summer day is a bad thing; happiness is quite sensual. thus the challenge from here on out is to find and flower the strain of religion that precedes the agricultural revolution. and i cannot do it using judeo-christianity alone, because genesis makes herding and agriculture look like technologies that have existed since the beginning of time, which simply isn't true and so won't work. i have to explore the problems of eden itself, rather. (and that will be eternally fun.) part of the challenge, to finish up, will be to mutually assimilate or reconcile the competing understandings of time itself; christ is christ because of historical advent. the far east by contrast asserts that chronological cause and consequence is an illusion, both in one person's lifetime and the life of a race -- that is, if my crude understanding of the east is basically accurate. finally, there's always native american animism to consider... thank's to the navajo scholars among others, the needed literature is already at arm's reach.
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to the fourth dimension!
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