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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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @leashless
Is a beaver building a dam a flight from nature? Meerkats and their social etiquettes? Bees and their honeycombs? Where do we draw the line? We're just beavers building more complicated dams that are slowly destroying our ability to keep living. We can do better.
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Replying to @sourjayne @leashless
I would say exterminating all the predators in a region to make it safe for ourselves, our children and our livestock is a flight from nature.
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My point is, we don't want to live within the constraints of our environment, and sometimes we have good reasons to do so, which is that our environment is trying to kill us.
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From Richard Morgan's "Broken Angels";
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A smile flitted across her face."Sorry. But it's hard to think in terms of peace when you have a murdered city on one hand, the pent-up force of a hyperportal on the other, a closing army of nanocreatures somewhere just over the hill and the air awash with lethal-dose radiation."
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