I've been going on in this blog about hubris in various posts. With the acquisition of power has come hubris. "We've become dominant over nature" is a hubristic statement, which means it's not true. The statement that is accurate, that puts us in accurate relationship with nature, is we think we've become dominant over nature, but it's a delusion, and a lie we tell ourselves to feel powerful. Too powerful to die is the unconscious wish, the feeling of omnipotence that hubris engenders. And the irony of course is if we destroy the soil and oceans we (all life) emerges from, we destroy ourselves also. The idea we will be able to separate from nature sufficiently to transcend biological limitation completely is the ultimate hubris.
This line of thought is the reason I became excited to discover the James Hillman exposition "Changing the Object of our Desire" where he speaks eloquently of the dilemma we currently find ourselves in.
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