Sep 12, 2009

Human Freedom

Human Freedom

In the late 1950's, a mountain lion was killed on farmland adjacent to SW Phoenix. Encounters of wild animals with 'civilized' humans were destined to become more common. The fresh kill was strung up on a tree branch enabling the full length to be easily photographed by news reporters and all.

Mountain lions, have been known to cross through a city on their way to better hunting grounds. They have no ability to distinguish an artifice, a contraption, [[ n [perh. blend of contrivance, trap, and invention ] (ca. 1825) : DEVICE, GADGET ]] the city, from the natural environment. To the pure and wild lion, the automobiles, and people of the city, are beheld as merely strange, natural creatures never encountered before. The city itself is perceived as merely a strange, natural region of the Earth having large, sometimes towering, square trees, assorted other vegetation, rock and terrestrial formations, not previously encountered. All animals, including humans, being products of Earth-life's natural evolution, lack any naturally evolved ( via Earth-life's evolution ) perception, recognition and understanding of the artificial objects and phenomena of civilization.

Such illusions are entailed by the nature of Life's evolution, by Mother Nature. She is, simply, incapable of evolving non-nature or un-nature, or artificial, anti-living nature; and incapable, as well, of evolving the perception of something not created by her, and her mate the Sun. (The firmament has created only a few meteors obstructing our 300,000 year-old species.) This non-natural, non-evolved knowledge-- awareness of the existence of artificial, alien objects and phenomena -- has to discovered as a human, nonreligious revelation on the part of humans, having naturally evolved self-consciousness intergrown with a rebellious human spirit.

Next to richly nurtured children and parents, such precious human rebels are humanity's natural treasure! A treasure generated by the oppressive, illegitimate nature of civilization as an artificialized, synthetic, and alien form of human socioculture. Without rebels inspired by the flashes of human revelations, the nature and existence of these alien, artificial aduterations remains unknown to humans living within, coercively adapted to, and programmed by history's hoaxful pen -- the written word (and now videotapes) -- of civilization socioculture.

These moments of human revelation, if sufficiently frequent or large, are transformational, life-changing, mind-spirit flashes of natural, original, human comprehension. They, however, are rarely deemed worthy of cultivation into achieving even a modest rooting in any terrain of civilization. This revelation's new light illuminates alienism's (or alienity's or alienage's) existence here on Earth: not merely in outer space. It reveals alien, extraterrestrial objects/phenomena in the form of historical events and contempory sufferings and inequities on Earth, beyond meteorites. And, it reveals our original, natural humanity preceding this alienized realm of humanity called civilization. Lacking this light thrown upon our human self and lifeworld, the motorist driving to work, like the mountain lion walking to a new hunting ground, perceives the city as part of the normal, natural world, created by forces, agents and human-agents, acting as parts of Earth's natural creation, or processes thereof.

The Green Movement (or Environmental Movement), desperately requires this very human revelation so hard to come by: that the artificial, alien pollution of Earth-life's pure, natural, human nature, spirit, being, mind, culture and reality is the original, ultimate source of environmental pollution and global warming. Lacking this, we will remain in the reactive mode; rather than breaking through into the deep source of ecological destruction; and thereby, capturing the only mode effective against our Age's accelerating growth of diverse scurge: the preventive mode.

This discovery-revelation is startling and simple! Namely, it is naturally unperceivable to the lion and unperceivable and inconceivable to the human, that civilization is an alien, invasive, destructive creation, created by dominant, humans that have been penetrated, violated and infected with alien ideas, contraptions and enterprises. In the wild lion, it is, simply, its evolved nature blocking the perception of alienism. In the civilized human, it is both the evolved human nature (of human perception and understanding) and, as well, the artificial, alien perception and intelligence programmed into humans from birth through adulthood, that are blocking the revelations of natural, authentic perception and understanding of (what is) authentic, human truth, goodness and reality -- of what is natural, authentic, human development, well-being, and sustainability.

Ironically and perplexingly, to understand the true nature, reality, and meaning of this synthesis of naturals with artificials, constituting the city and civilization; humans have to momentarily escape from the imprisoned perception, intellect, mind, heart, soul, spirit, being, identity, culture and consciousness imposed by civilization. We achieve this, in moments of human revelation, by recapturing from within (if naturally developed and somewhat intact) early childhood's unadulterated, unpolluted, natural human developmental perception, intuition, vision and intelligence-- before they were penetrated, violated and transmuted by objects, phenomena and dominant elites of civilization.

We pull this buried treasure up from the buried child within. This eco-episteme-spiritual-ontologic-anthropologic-psychologic-sociocultural excavation, this recovery, constitutes a deep, human revelation to the adolescent or adult. It, thereby, forms the central root of any effective, authentically human counter movements and ideologies aimed at liberating conquered human freedoms. It represents the deep-rooted means of our human liberation from the diverse human oppressions, exploitations and subjugations, which characterize civilization's 5,000 year-old socioculture: its empires, states, nations, societies, institutions, and cultures.

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