Isn't it funny how humans are animals, made of the same stuff as other beings and objects; we developed on Earth and continue to do so, and yet we still think of ourselves as separate from (even in opposition to) nature?
There is something distinctly amazing to me about a human knowing it is part of the world around it, and that the way it is living is somewhat disrespectful or negative. It's nice that we don't always think good things about ourselves, we are willing (sometimes more willing) to admit some of our problems, than to notice our good features.
Isn't that exactly what I'm doing? I don't disagree, cognizance is extraordinary. What I don't understand is the arbitrary dialectic between that which is "nature" and that which is "man-made". It's a weird exceptionalism that I don't really get.
Ah I see, Maybe it arises from us being more aware and more able to manipulate our surroundings. I guess It's in our nature. I don't disagree with you either, I feel people tend to forget their root and where where really spawned from sometimes. I feel like people can sometimes still perceive things like this too negatively sometimes, but that's just my opinion.
-Edit- I feel like a lot of what I said here didn't make too much sense. I don't think I was really understanding the concept, or following the topic. I guess what is nature and what is man-made are elementally the same, and maybe it's more our nature to seperate the concepts. Man made things are what have a distinct human craftsmanship to them perhaps, where natural things have not received our manipulation.
IIN that Google maps satellite has caused me to hate the human race?
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Isn't it funny how humans are animals, made of the same stuff as other beings and objects; we developed on Earth and continue to do so, and yet we still think of ourselves as separate from (even in opposition to) nature?
We're so fucking full of ourselves.
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agreed.
There is something distinctly amazing to me about a human knowing it is part of the world around it, and that the way it is living is somewhat disrespectful or negative. It's nice that we don't always think good things about ourselves, we are willing (sometimes more willing) to admit some of our problems, than to notice our good features.
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Isn't that exactly what I'm doing? I don't disagree, cognizance is extraordinary. What I don't understand is the arbitrary dialectic between that which is "nature" and that which is "man-made". It's a weird exceptionalism that I don't really get.
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Ah I see, Maybe it arises from us being more aware and more able to manipulate our surroundings. I guess It's in our nature. I don't disagree with you either, I feel people tend to forget their root and where where really spawned from sometimes. I feel like people can sometimes still perceive things like this too negatively sometimes, but that's just my opinion.
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-Edit- I feel like a lot of what I said here didn't make too much sense. I don't think I was really understanding the concept, or following the topic. I guess what is nature and what is man-made are elementally the same, and maybe it's more our nature to seperate the concepts. Man made things are what have a distinct human craftsmanship to them perhaps, where natural things have not received our manipulation.
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Yeah, that makes sense. I agree.
"The enlightened man calls man himself: the animal with red cheeks." (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
I just thought that was interesting.