Yarden CST post week 8
“Human animals like watching non human animals.” (Foundation, 165)
“From the first cities onward, urbanization has been accompanied by processes of catching and containing animals, both physically and metaphorically, within realms dominated by humans.” (Foundation, 166)
How/ why are we as a race creating boundaries and disconnecting ourselves from each other and the earth?
Throughout the class I have noticed how humans have in time have disconnected themselves from the earth and with others. We keep building walls and segregating ourselves with religion, race, countries, cities, etc. We separate ourselves from plants and animals, and separate ourselves from our food, our water, our clothes, and almost everything we own and use. The thing that it seems we have been connecting to is technology, and integrating technology into our homes, and into our personal lives more and more. In a sense technology has the potential to help bridge this gap and reconnect us with each other and with the earth in a beneficial and positive way. I think for this to happen we need a intentional global conscious change.
Yes, and how do we enact that? Why do we separate ourselves? And why do we feel we must separate ourselves? Great post. I would love to see this come up more in our conversations.
I think people feel a sense of organization by separating and categorizing things. But then when you really think about it, everything is so fluid that you can’t fully categorize or label the world. But accepting this fluidity and avoiding separation leaves me at least wondering what the point of asking questions is. It seems like everything is so abstract.
Its a good question! Why do we want to separate everything? To capture and contain is to understand, to make simple and graspable so that one might feel a sense of order. I see us doing this with techonology