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Nov 15, 2022Liked by L.P. Koch

This literally makes me cry… how sad is it that we have learned nothing from our history and from the warnings of what is written in the bible which I know of and I’m not even a deeply religious person. When man thinks they are like God, the end is near and man does indeed believe themselves to be omnipotent now.

It blows my mind how our history is no longer valued or revered but rather smeared and ridiculed and debased simply because we live in so called modern times and have achieved some progress . It is only from looking at the past that we learn from our mistakes and we learn our lessons that guide us as to how we need to strive to live in the future. Mother Nature is so much more superior and intricate and complex and beautiful than anything man could come up with in 1000 lifetimes!

I hate the world we are forced to live in now and I can honestly say that I would choose to NOT bring children into this world where I actually have 3 grown children now who are all millennials and for their generation and the younger ones that follow all over the world these are the shittiest of times in our so called “modern” world.

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Amen! Our very souls are being destroyed by the Megmachine

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Feb 11·edited Feb 11Liked by L.P. Koch

"There you have it: if you feel connected to your local nature instead of advocating for an abstract “planet saving,” you might as well be a deranged fascist obscurantist." Hilarious, and very good!

The conservative aspects of environmentalism have always been prominent in the United States. For examples, many huge parks are actually legally designated "Monuments." Much conservation is funded by hunters. Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold speak of wilderness as antidote. And so forth. Which is not to say we don't have many of the same problems, and others, too . . .

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I will argue that corrupt climate science and the associated technocratic delusions are not the primary problems in the context of Political Ecology, but secondary developments made possible by a more deeper, ancient fallacy: the very idea that nature is “sacred” and that it is capable of “balance”.

In its totality, nature is value-neutral, amoral, unconscious and internally conflicted. Nature has beautiful and useful, nourishing aspects, and the primitive man relied on these entirely for his survival, but nature can be also destructive and unpredictable, and these two features seemed irreconcilable to the early man. The ancient man had to split the ‘good’ of nature (the ‘sacred mother’ that nourished the tribe) from the unpredictable destructive forces that harmed him, in order to preserve the illusion of predictable future, controllable by harmony with the ‘sacred mother’. The spectre of random annihilation by natural events was thus differentiated from the ‘sacred mother’ and typically attributed to evil spirits, gods and human magic. This ancient conceptual split had profound consequences for modern man.

If nature is sacred then the animal-in-human is also sacred, and so is the bond of man-the-animal to its natural place, whereas rational consciousness (the transcendent Human) is secondary, out of balance with nature, therefore profane. This essentially pagan/animistic ideal seeped into modern ideologies, such as “blood and soil” in the Völkisch romantic movement, or more recently reinvented as “people and place”, constituting a commitment to the primacy of the indigenous/native over non-indigenous/non-native. It is not without significance in this context that the modern term ‘Eco’ is derived from the Greek word ‘oîkos’, meaning home. In essence, the non-indigenous outsider could never “belong” to the land of the indigenous tribes and was therefore always secondary, a trespasser, always a threat to the balance with nature, a threat that had to be eliminated in order to restore the sacred balance.

Ironically, the concept of balance in nature itself a contrivance, because the natural world has no ideal state but is a process of constant transformation, mutation, emergence and extinction. When we say that natural balance is lost we typically mean only that the beautiful and useful face of nature has been damaged by death-causing pollution and physical destruction by man, but the ideological fallacy of sacredness of nature has extended the concept of imbalance to Humanity itself, specifically to the presence of non-native tribes and races on particular land, giving rise to nativist prioritarianism and indigenous supremacism. The technocrats are advocating globalism through the front door but also nativist prioritarianism and indigenous separatism though the back door of local government everywhere, presumably because it offers a means of population and movement control, as well as a method of splitting up nations into tribal micro-states that can be economically subjugated by a global administration.

In essence, by regarding nature as sacred we implicitly devalue humanity; a moral error that the aspiring technocrats are enthusiastically using against us. I suggest that in order to defeat the great technocratic deceptions we must first reject the view that nature is sacred, that it can be returned to some original balance. We must be clear on what aspects of nature are valuable (not nature as whole), why they are valuable, and how we should retain their value for future generations without undermining the source of all values, which is not nature but Humanity itself. The conception of Humanity as socially reflexive rational consciousness that generates meaning and value only collectively, by communicating in good faith with other beings of the same (rational) kind, seeing them as instances of the same fundamental value, can give us answers to all these questions.

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