Unsustainable Living

Unsustainable Living

If one were asked to find what best represented and symbolized the unsustainable society of Man… one could easily choose… METAL. Why? … Because it is the use of metal that has enabled Man to act out his Domination over the Natural World.

Chemistry… money… or unnatural energy could also have been selected… but Metal seems to best capture the Essence of Domination from its most primitive roots. Metal has allowed Man… from the earliest times… to rip into our Mother Earth… and to forcibly extract from her the baubles that we value more than Love or Harmony!

Metal has also allowed Farming to replace Gathering as the normal method of feeding ourselves. The Gatherer would depend on Nature to provide for his or her needs. Farming… especially commercial farming… imposes our will over the ecosystem and the Intelligent forces of Nature.

Chain saws… automobiles… knives… swords… bullets… guns… bombs… prison cells… have allowed Man to extend his love of Domination… Greed… and Violence… into the Natural World… and upon our Brothers and Sisters. Metal… in the form of knives and bullets… easily penetrate the living form… maiming and killing. It is sad that this form of Violence has captured the human fancy more than any other… and has become the very foundation of our society… upon which all else that we have built depends.

The routine horror of the blade in the slaughterhouse… the butchery… has become the standard way of eating… and “living”… in our False Society. What is more… we have willingly accepted all of this! We have accepted… embraced… and exalted… the way of the blade… and take great pleasure in our savoring of Violence.

All the human crimes against Nature… the cutting of the trees… the extraction industries… indeed the entire Industrial Revolution… all that is profane… has been made readily available to us through our love affair with the blade. Nothing represents the Wrong Path… the enticement to destruction… more than METAL. The entire unsustainable society has been built with… and rests upon… this… "the devil’s favorite tool!"

As an aside… and indeed the insight that prompted this particular writing… is the seemingly innocent fork which regularly appears at our meals. Its ability to stab and render helpless any recalcitrant morsel that defies our impatient gullet… has won our unanimous approval and reverence!

It has been wisely said that we are killing ourselves… mouthful by mouthful… with our knife and fork. How important these utensils have become in allowing us to eat the flesh of animals. The Violence of our new day is set before us along with our breakfast plate… and we impatiently… and enthusiastically… partake! Let the day begin!!

In a truly harmonious world… we see that the knife and fork would be totally unnecessary. In Nature… all is simple. The animals do not need knives and forks! The natural foods do not require such formidable weapons to attack them. An apple… an orange… a banana… berries… a carrot… all can be eaten with just our hands!

In this light… it is seen as interesting that our False Society… with its ungodly foods… would deem the knife and fork as necessary parts of “genteel etiquette”… and decry the use of eating with one’s hands as a sign of barbarism! Ahh… within the Illusion… all is right!! Indeed… once on the Wrong Path… only the continuation of Wrong is made to appear acceptable… and “right”.