Fire of the Final Days
The Earth's language is spiritual and tenuous, a series of whispers and feelings. It is however also remarkably and shockingly incompatible with the languages of exploitation and commercialism. Many of us have completely forgotten that there ever was another language, another possibility. Historically, nature, mountains, rivers, trees, the sun, the moon have always been honored in ancient cultures. It's only when we start moving away from our connection to nature and ourselves, that we begin not showing care polluting and destroying the environment. We need to revive these attitudes that foster our connection with nature. As we continue to accelerate through the rapid-fire of a paradigm immersed in technology and a culture defined by the values of the simulacrum, have we come to expect tense, anxious and confrontational existence as the cornerstone of our humanity? It may be that the answer to this disconnect with the natural world lies in the lives and attitudes of the few remaining land-based cultures on this planet. I am convinced that these Indigenous cultures are a valuable and vulnerable resource we shouldn't ignore any longer. Desperately few remaining, many of them have been compromised by our lifestyle to various extents. Yet these old customs and beliefs have piercing details about our place in the practical calculus of existence. They contain durable messages from ancestors who turned to their senses and not the cold reductionist and dualism of 19th century Cartesian logic of, for answers to existential puzzles.
