The greatest lesson I've learned from paganism is that humans are not separate from nature. We are not above nature.
Humans have always had a hard time defining ourselves (tool use, language, complex social structure) because each time we do, we find other animals who have similar traits.
The line between ‘man’ and ‘beast’ is not as concrete as we'd like to think.
@fey Yes, exactly! And even the word 'artificial' to indicate something made by humans isn't quite right, because everything we make comes from things found on Earth, even if it's made with a machine.
@Cat_LeFey I agree, I think I've been trying to distinguish more between the effects/origins of human-made things instead, i.e. entropic vs. regenerative, extractive vs. harmonious. There are certainly both good & bad ways that we transform our environment, subsuming them all under "artificial" doesn't really address things.
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