Man as an Extension of Nature, Not a Techno Hybrid Simulation

Julian Rose
21st Century Wire

We humans evolved, over millions of years, from single-cell amoebae to multicellular organisms, invertebrates, vertebrates and finally to bipedal ‘Pithecanthropus Erectus’. We are therefore indisputably part of nature; traceable within a direct flow starting from the earliest formative years of the universe.

Mankind has celebrated this relationship for thousands of years, taking the form of seasonal ritual expressions of thanks for its bounty and healing powers.

Surviving tribal cultures still practice such ritual recognition of their dependence and interconnection with the powers of nature.

Nature celebrating pagan societies predate the imposition of Christianity on the European continent, and American Indians made such rituals a central part of their lives until forced off their sacred lands by Western colonisers.

In the East, spiritual recognition of the universe’s infinite power shaped entire societies, becoming integrated into the way of life of millions of ordinary people.

We humans cannot ‘stand alone’ in separation from the living environment in which we find ourselves. However, formal educational systems have instilled in us this sense of separation. A sense of superiority over the plant and animal kingdom. A belief that we are a uniquely intelligent life form having the right to exert control over nature and the natural environment, for our own ends.

Out of this belief has arisen a form of inbuilt arrogance. A belligerence concerning our relationship with the multiplicity of existence. “It’s all there to serve us!” say tunnel vision exponents of capitalism, communism and socialism – thinking only of how to profit by the mining of its wealth.

But the bounty of nature is our breadbasket, our survival lifeline. It nourishes more than just our physical needs, fuelling the birth of the arts as well as our spiritual aspirations.

Quantum physics has made us aware that even the millions of cells that comprise the make-up of our bodies are in constant intelligent contact with each other and with the environment through which we move.

All this goes to show how embedded we are with the natural environment; how we affect it and how it affects us, symbiotically.

But this reality has been under attack for a long time. Its natural generosity and health-sustaining powers were seen as a threat to the world’s aspiring architects of control. To them, man’s ability to survive and thrive needed to be tied into a system of profit, top-down power, exploitation and complete ‘people management’.

Through the centuries, various key historical events further cemented the power of these pernicious control agents. Outstanding, in this respect, have been the Industrial Revolution and two World Wars.

The Industrial Revolution sucked peasant farmers and artisans off the land with the promise of regular wages and greater purchasing power in the industrial cities.

From this moment on, man’s relationship with nature became deeply fractured.

Where once soil, crops, animals, forests and rivers formed the setting of daily life and work, now bleak concrete, brick, and steel became the dominant setting, soon etching their way into the psyche of the new arrivals, along with the coal dust and industrial pollutants irredeemably tainting the air.

Huge numbers were drafted into this new industrial phenomenon. And the countryside was drained of its best young talent and also the rituals that had welcomed the seasons, the rising and setting sun and the waxing and waning moon.

Between approximately 1760 and 1840, this vast exodus from the land radically shifted the values of society. The imagination of society. The creative focus of society. The true wealth of society.

In the UK, with the earlier advent of The Bank of England (1694) came the perfect top-down means of exploiting the new urban class: borrowing money at interest – usury. The impoverishment of the workers came hand in hand with the promise of “a better life” than on the land. A weekly wage packet from the factory replacing the self-sufficiency derived from the fields.

A new definition of ‘liberty’ emerged amongst the grim of industrialisation: ‘the direct ability to acquire material goods’, to adorn one’s home with decorative objects. The beginning of the modern-day allure of ‘convenience’ placated families who sold out to slavery to the bosses of the new corporations that competed with each other for cheaper raw materials and higher profits.

I am sketching this passage of history in order to show how contemporary man became desensitised and alienated from nature, and how adapting to a life of mechanisation started a process that has culminated in the present surge in uptake of a virtual AI-led digital dystopia.

Large-scale, centralised industrial mechanisation and extensive mechanised transport systems became the dominant landscape in an aspiration for the prize of ‘modernity’. Spurred on by a superficial propaganda regime that included mass-produced advertising, titillating posters and alluring shop windows – all to win the hearts and minds of working people and create an alien reality which usurped the diverse agricultural landscape they had left behind.

You can see why – with the advent of agrichemical industrial farming that followed – the last vestiges of a working relationship with nature has been obliterated; drowned out under a sea of toxic chemicals and ever more brutal farm machinery.

So eventually ex-landed agriculturists found themselves in the ironic position of purchasing their second-hand, denatured and degraded toxic dinners from the wages of industrial slavery, having left behind their ability to earn their keep directly from the cultivation of the fruits of the land.

Two World Wars simply reinforced this process of alienation. Post-war society got ‘the supermarket’ and food travelling the length and breadth of the planet – to be sold ‘cheap’ on their plastic neon-lit shelves.

The new bosses of globalised corporate exploitation quickly joined arms with the bankers, and the resulting multimillionaires obscenely sprouted up to become the dominant influencers of governments the world over.

By now ‘we the people’ were completely immersed in the high standing given to the god of technology. The word ‘progress’ became interpreted to mean more, faster and more convenient.

So when the computer and mobile phone hit the scene, there was an immediate clamour to own such devices and live under their spell. Thus, our once tangible world became increasingly ‘virtual’.

AI and the Transhuman are a direct extension of this stampede into abstraction and alienation from our agrarian roots. We have bought into our own slavery and degradation, and for most, it looks like there is no going back.

But for some, and hopefully soon more,  there is. And here lies the rising star of the East.

Those who wish to remake their lives once again into a collaboration and celebration with their roots, to get closer to the heartbeat of our ancient earth and to breathe the sweet air of forests, lakes, rivers and seas, should act now, before the AI mind controllers sweep the next swathe of Smart hostages into their digital gulag.

Even now, as our world is darkened and torn by wars, including the war on nature, instigated by psychopathic despots and greed-obsessed oligarchs, nature shows off her extraordinary resilience, blazing her expansive glory in the gardens, fields and forests where human beings retain their role as guardians of the diversity of plant and animal life.

That is where we belong if we care about reawakening, nurturing and expanding our technologically impoverished souls.

We humans possess the same extraordinary resilience as that displayed by nature, but most have kept it hidden away behind a veil of indoctrinated self-doubt.

So now, at this eleventh hour, it’s time to cast aside the chains of timidity and wrest back control of our destinies. And in taking this crucial step, I council you to reevaluate your present life and call on nature to be your guide in designing your great onward adventure.

Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, geopolitical analyst, international activist and broadcaster. See website www.julianrose.info for information about Julian’s acclaimed book Overcoming the Robotic Mind and other works. Books can be purchased by contacting Julian directly: see ‘contact author’ under ‘reviews’.

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