So I just got back home from a two week trip to one of the last truly wild places on earth.
I have been to this place several times but every time I go, it leaves me with the same uneasy feeling: there are just too many damn humans on this planet.
Wilderness is, by definition, a place where few (if any) people exist. So it stands to reason that not many will get to experience its power and singular majesty in their lifetime. Being one of the few who does get to experience it, I find this both immensely sad and something that I want to keep closely secret out of an intense fear that others will realize the value of the experience and ruin these places for me by extension.
The modern world is such a terrible bastardization of the way we could (and likely should) be living. Not because of our inventions, but precisely and uniquely because of our categorically absurd numbers.
What is it in us that drives this intense need to create ever more meaningless life? Every additional mouth literally dilutes the experience of living for the rest of us and yet fools continue to think to themselves “but my child will be different”. This blindness will never cease to puzzle me.
As it stands, we are collectively nothing more than stupid, anxious animals outgrowing our environment. We fill our lives with garbage experiences, sell our bodies for a pittance, and happily swallow whatever lies some smooth talking salesman with a catchy jingle (or religion) has in store for us.
The alternative is a life of fullness and plenty, free from the endless worry about offspring and their pathetic and trivial survival.
Sadly, I just don’t see this kind of world ever happening for our species. Our flaws are just too great and our capacity for perspective too hopelessly narrow to accommodate any concept of reality beyond the ones we are sold and readily trade our lives for.
We are so afraid and unprepared for the possibility that our lives are meaningless, that we essentially forgo the experience of living at all.
What a shame.
#thinkdangerously
#grownostr
#childfree