Life’s like this, isn’t it?
It’s messy and entangled. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, which exists on this planet in isolation. Everything is connected. Everything is embedded in multilayered environments and ecosystems. Everything has a history, a presence and a multitude of potential futures.
Yet we create whole systems of thought, of society and of structures as if this weren’t the case. We separate things out, disconnect and disembody them. We reduce the complex web of inter-related reality to sets and collections of interchangeable objects.
We reduce the subject to an object.
I find all that alienating, dehumanising and artificial.
Every encounter, every relationship, is transformative. You see a movement and your body and mind go into a state of alertness. You hear a song and your heart swells, your eyes moisten and your mind fills with memories. You read a story, or watch a movie, and your emotions flow, your physiology adapts, your thoughts and ideas set off in new directions.
It makes no sense to me to do anything other than accept that life is like this….entangled, complex and messy.
Heroes Not Zombies 
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