We move through systems every day without noticing how deeply they shape us. Not by force, but through incentives, expectations, and quiet agreements we rarely question. Over time, what is useful and real can be inverted, while what is abstract and dependent is elevated in its place.
Category: Journal Entries
thoughts, ponderings, experiences and lessons learned. or, something deep and life-changing.
What we call invasive, diseased, or dangerous often says more about our assumptions than the systems we’re observing. What if forests and bodies are responding intelligently to conditions we’ve misunderstood?
I am sorry. For what it’s worth, I apologize to all women for the ways in which this world has been designed to cause you suffering from the moment you are born. Even institutionalized childbirth is a distortion of the beautiful, simple, sacred, and natural. Man v Woman is just one chapter in a vast, dark, and dysfunctional historical narrative. I, like all men, have suffered greatly as a result of it, though few would admit it or realize how deep the wound is for all of us.
It starts from the top. That is something we all know. We don’t know who is truly at the top; it certainly isn’t a president, prime minister, or pope. Oligarchs? Clever (but evil) aliens? Stonecutters? Regardless, our modern world is based on power hierarchies, particularly in government, industry, commerce, education, science, and religion, all of which are heavily influenced by the capitalist market system. The system is clearly flawed, which is not surprising to most of us.
Maybe it’s just that time of year again, but I find that existential curiosities abound in the darker, shorter days of wintertime. I look at the world, and see that the majority of the dominant species seem intent on self-termination, while an increasingly awake and aware collective is emerging that might save us all from ourselves. I wonder, where do I fit in to all this? Why am I here? Who am I… really?