lukadjo

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I share/reshare/rebug more art than I do here at @lukadjo-art-i-like


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alyaza
@alyaza
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masklayer
@masklayer

Nature is go in the woods when you get a chance imho


SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

more urban greenspaces connecting walkable zones

let animals back in the city so they can live here again

let people occasionally be reminded that they're part of an ecosystem with lots of cool little guys in it when they go to the store to buy food or whatever. let them sometimes get outside a hermetically sealed car all the way from point A to B and see an animal that isn't a squirrel or a robin


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Yup! Grew up on a farm and the cottagecore shit just ignores the reality of the situation, if you can even afford the land. Even producing enough to keep you fed is difficult.

Absolutely! In my opinion, "nature" is a social construct that doesn't actually mean anything. All there is, is a vast set of individual living beings, each a unique self, perhaps a unique sentience, in a vast set of complex relationships with other individual living beings.

Ecosystems exist, but in a fuzzy way, a convenient, convergent abstraction for sapient beings like humans to use to get a handle on all the chaotic relationships - but they mustn't be reified the same way identity groups and other spooks mustn't be reified. All that really exists is individuals and their relationships with one another, either in human life or in nonhuman life - and the construct of "nature" is a way to paper over that, to de-personify all living things, to objectify them into catalogue-able "stuff" instead of beings.

Furthermore the construct of "nature" exists to enable humans to avoid thinking about the supreme horror and perversity of the natural state, full of endless suffering as beings who don't and can't know any better and have no other options constantly maim and murder one another in order to survive - while we placidly look on and say it's all beautiful and peaceful, because we have become so alienated from it as to no longer know or care what is actually happening.

That's not to say that humanity's animal agriculture practices aren't even worse - they are - but even if all animal agriculture was eliminated, nature itself is still an inescapable hell for nearly all beings except humans, and our immense inherited genetic capital, our immense privilege, blinds us to that fact and enables us to objectify the totality of all nonhuman beings as a shapeless mass of "nature", a perpetual tormented, deprived, oppress proletariat class lower than any human being, the last resort for the downtrodden to compare themselves to - "Well, at least we ain't filthy animals." What would happen if we joined in solidarity with all individual living things and strove to create environments where they could be maximally liberated from coercion and objectification and death and suffering and chaos, instead of using the thought-terminating cliche "lol it's just nAtUrE" every time we looked out a window?