Look to Nature for the Numbskulls… and the Geniuses

Lately I’ve been chewing Vitamin C like cud, fighting off something like a cold. My nose runs and everything is 20 decibels quieter.

I stopped by Josh and Erin’s tonight, threw some darts, and had some beverages. Then we watched some HD Planet Earth as Sigur Ros played through the sound system; a mind-blow.

Nature. It’s filled with organisms that live to consume one another. It is beautiful, and we accept it as it is (minus the occasional sad-remark when a monkey gets eaten by a lion).

Due to a Sigur Ros induced thought-stream as the imagery of nature was displayed in front of my face, I got thinking about what we don’t accept about human nature. We consume each other all the time, not on a physical level, but energetically. We still try to dominate one another in one way or another. I’ve been resistant to the way humanity manages itself through incessant power-seeking, from the micro (one human over another) to macro (one human over many) level.

Maybe it is in our nature to be spreading across the world like cancer. Maybe there’s supposed to be an elite ruling class of people. Maybe your boyfriend is supposed to manipulate you into staying in a terrible relationship. This is nature where galaxies consume galaxies, and atoms attract and repel other atoms. The stronger is supposed to win, and dominate the weaker.

But, even the strongest alpha-male creature at the top of the food chain will eventually become acquainted with the vultures who circle his head and begin to peck at him before he lets out his last breath.

Nature is beautiful. Nature is ugly. It’s still nature.

People say that humans have cut themselves off from nature. Maybe it’s our nature to do so.

The good thing about humans is that we have the ability to do with ourselves what we want, by figuring out what we allow to consume us, and to know what/who we consume and why.

Something that I’ve noticed; the most memorable human-beings in history have become noteworthy, not by being consumers of energy and power, but creators. Humanity likes to glorify and hold on to what a genius creates because there is a glimpse of something higher, more preferable than usual human thinking, found in each piece of brilliant creative work. Something happens in any creative process and art form; a transcendental shift occurs, in the artist and viewer, which is absolutely unexplainable by a human-eat-human state of consciousness… something that takes us closer to the truth behind it all.

Maybe we don’t have to be able to explain something to know our own truth, because the deepest truth we can experience and express is that which is unexplainable.