The denial of relationality
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The denial of relationality
Because the species arose from complex social groups, both individual and collective approaches to motivation are both fervently present within the development of human behavior. From within the group, the motivation to acquire resources for survival and to reproduce is an imperative; and the likewise for the group as a whole. So, the individual is intrinsically motivated to express and empower herself as well as her tribe, to out-compete, out-survive, and out-reproduce both her rivals in the group and the rivals of her group. She fights a battle to estrange her tribe from its relation to existence and estrange herself from the existence of the tribe. Humanity relies upon the tactics of estrangement; to become self-reliant, independent, and distinctly powerful enough to acquire maximal resources. Upon thousands of years of development and moral justification from both the individual and the collection, individuals, groups, and frameworks are set up for abuse through an illusion of power. The species marches to the embattlement, genocide, slaughter, and enslavement of masses and professes divine providence. They imbed themselves in a materialistic world view to the extent of destroying the world that created the resources, exhausting populations of those resources, and legitimizes it as human flourishing. They seek out to see that they are superior to all existence, and through ideological and metaphysical inquisition, they unequivocally believe so. Fallibly discovering the right to exhaust, enslave, and slaughter not only their own species but the entirety of physical existence. Thus, the denial of relationality.
We have entered an unwinnable eternal expedition. To become so powerful as to estrange ourselves from existence itself. We have sought to manifest ourselves as divinities. Yet, we can not deny a certain relationship to the universe that we actively attempt estrange from. The mass of cells that makeup a human is over ninety percent non-human. We are intrinsically enchained to the world itself, in sullying it we will destroy ourselves. We are intrinsically enchained to the rest of the flora and fauna, in eradicating them we will destroy ourselves. We are intrinsically enchained to each other, through the entrancement of the means to destroy each other and in doing so, we will destroy ourselves. The fall of man is the pragmatic ignorance of fact; what he sought so sedulously to master. The acceptance of the underlying relationality of existence yet is human kind’s one hope of salvation. That, in a web of relationality, by strengthening the ties of the web strengthens not only the web in itself, but the agents interwoven. By strengthening existence, we strengthen ourselves..
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