Essay seeds
Dec. 28th, 2023 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lioness_hartUsually I buck against ideas that set humanity apart from the rest of the natural world, but I think there's one that deserves some sitting-with.
For most of the beings alive, survival depends on one part sheer brutal luck and two parts being the most well-suited to the circumstances in which you find yourself. Survival of the most well-adapted, as it were. 'Survival of the fittest', as it used to be. We know better now.
But humans have done an amazing job, for less better and much more worse, of severing ourselves from the natural world. Thus, right now and definitely in the upheaval to come, we run by a different rule:
Survival of the loved.
I'm going to sit with that for a while and see where it takes me. But it feels right; feels like a seed from which a lot of good things might grow.
For most of the beings alive, survival depends on one part sheer brutal luck and two parts being the most well-suited to the circumstances in which you find yourself. Survival of the most well-adapted, as it were. 'Survival of the fittest', as it used to be. We know better now.
But humans have done an amazing job, for less better and much more worse, of severing ourselves from the natural world. Thus, right now and definitely in the upheaval to come, we run by a different rule:
Survival of the loved.
I'm going to sit with that for a while and see where it takes me. But it feels right; feels like a seed from which a lot of good things might grow.
