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We as humans are out of balance with wildness. We have lost our interconnectedness with nature and have divested from a vision and a practice of whole life, to an economy of abstraction, intellectualism, and most obviously illness. Global socialized murder and exploitation are the norm. The topic seems small in scope, when we don't look at our "nature". It's obvious humans have lost the connection and honor for our wild contemporaries. All life forms are the culmination of hundreds of millions of years of biological evolution, and if observed carefully, will always inform and guide us on how to live more complete and honest lives. Because we have created language, self-differentiated and alienated ourselves into culture, some in righteous culture, we have lost what counts-meaning and integrity. Beauty, responsibility, communion and death are our truths. Greed, want, distraction and fear are our current states. No lifeform is sacred in the current state, much less an abstract life like the planet. We have large brains but don't know how to use them in concert with our hearts and souls.

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