(This, I think, is why Scott Alexander’s post about “The Goddess of Everything Else” didn’t quite land for me? Because it’s about getting entirely free of the Darwinian charnel ground, and I think that’s a confusion.)
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#s for parasitoids specifically, but biological control provides half the value of food production! Cock et al. 2012 - PDF via Google Scholar, search doi 10.1079/PAVSNNR20127043 )pic.twitter.com/EtYfnhQEQa
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It’s also a dung beetle! Does that change how you feel? (Phanaeus vindex - I’ve seen ‘em in Florida!)pic.twitter.com/o0WF6w9Yo8
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Consider that different species would have different valences (attraction / aversion) to the same stimuli. If dung beetles wrote poetry, they would compose odes to the sweet fragrance of life-giving shit.
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Dung beetle poets: "Shit, triumphant prize of victors! Shit, nourishing cradle for babies! The ox anus, glorious fountain from which all good things flow!"
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And! Humans have worshipped scarabs, dung beetles. Without them, we’d be knee-deep in dung! Important for nutrient cycling.https://www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-dung-beetle-worship/ …
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And, the retrovirus. What comes up for you? As humans, we're not on Team Virus, right? Viruses are terrifying, and sometimes deadly!pic.twitter.com/OdjJHTQDfr
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Welp: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/14/mammals-made-by-viruses/#.XLijHnUvw8o … Some of the key patterns that make you who you are, biologically, are made of ancient viruses. We wouldn’t be able to carry our babies in the womb, if it weren’t for viral DNA.
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(((If you really, really, really want an extra-strength bonus mediation on grotesque Darwinian patterns juxtaposed with tenderness and meaning -- Just be aware that it's enacted by numberless cartoon spiders: https://youtu.be/FL0En5GQkbM?t=30 … )))
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Contaminated and pure, sacred and profane start to break down, and build back up into something different. I don’t think there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to feel about these, before or after you know more about them. Many layers of meaning and story. It’s patterned and nebulous.
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And you can still make choices that matter, to care for what you care about.
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Gonna leave this thread for now, with Alan Watts on bloodstream-scale battles: https://www.organism.earth/library/document/98 … (while also not wanting to get attached to reifying harmony / balance as a final thing)pic.twitter.com/IP8aayOz33
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(That site's running a little slow, so here's the audio as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFuMBEu0ibw … )
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