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“Donna J. Haraway has argued, arrestingly, that we have never been human; that only ten percent of the cells in the body are occupied by human genomes, the rest by bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms; and that this symbiosis is to be celebrated, not feared: “I am vastly outnumbered by my tiny companions; better put, I become an adult human being in company with these tiny messmates. To be one is always to become with many. […] I love that when “I” die, all these benign and dangerous symbionts will take over and use whatever is left of “my” body, if only for a while.” - Donna Haraway”

— commentary by William Stephenson

I used to puzzle about what culture philosopher Jean Gebser intended us to understand by his term “the Law of the Earth” from his great book

entheognosis

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.””

— Walt Whitman

A Tale of Two Cities, as it were, which are two Ages.

mioxenoblade

There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.