Past 100 retweets for “Cutting Through Spiritual Colonialism” People are asking “so what do we do?” The yoga of our age is sustainability. Right Action, Yamas and Niyamas, must be reinterpreted in light of environmental science. Life must be designed not to harm other life.https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1262207937864503297 …
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Replying to @leashless
The problem is the system is designed such that we have no other alternatives. If we don't harm life, we die, or so we perceive it.
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Replying to @sourjayne @leashless
When I read this tweet I read "the system" in a broad sense as "samsara" not "the current politico-economic arrangement." Life *does* impose costs on other life. Long before capitalism your ancestors were hunters and trappers.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @sourjayne
If you eat few enough animals that the herd is undamaged, life is not harmed. Careful framing. We were all born to die,
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Replying to @leashless @sourjayne
I feel like this thinking gets pretty Penti Linkola pretty quick if taken to its logical conclusion.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @sourjayne
Minus the fascism and dumb stuff about over population (vs overconsumption)
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Replying to @leashless @sourjayne
I am not comfortable with the implications of regarding ecological stability as the highest good, and I think nothing short of a dictatorship would make people do so. Human culture and civilization is a flight from nature. Nature has its own horrors.
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It also leaves in a poor position to critique cruelties and brutalities when they themselves do not endanger ecological equilibrium.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @leashless
I don't think the goal is ecological equilibrium. The goal is not geoengineering ourselves into extinction, killing several billion canaries in coal mines on the way there.
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I think that is probably a better goal.
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