Chris

The idea that “humanity is separate from nature” is better read as an ongoing civil war inside nature itself. We should admit that ideas, techniques, and institutions are themselves ecological forces. Nature vs. nature plus ideas, a feedback system where symbolic forms steer matter.

Politics can be understood as an evolutionary adaptation: a behavioral strategy that leverages rhetoric and self-deception to secure resources under the guise of public service.

The Westphalian order, eroded by its own historical contradictions and rooted in selectively appropriated ideals, continues its genocide of innocent communities trapped between collapsing norms.