Stagtine, 28. Entangled
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Entangled
While the landscape ever evolved to meet new conditions—modern climate change and the increase in summer-long droughts, for example—the herd under our control could not. It was like a tree without her fungi, without her friends, without her singular nature and entangled existence.
It was locked in place and we held the key. The growing of soil and plants and beef is a fine thing but it had steadily become the only thing. Our management was focused on mimicking natural and wild breeding calendars and our holistic management lacked holism in the actual sense. It lacked her complex, dynamic and beautiful story of change. It lacked the understanding that humans are not the only species that have reason. If anything, it is modern humanity’s lack of reason that is threatening the world.
The land was our resource, but we were not her relation.1 In the spirit of Lincoln, if we do not release control, we will be controlled and, if we do not release our hold over abundance, our own abundance will also be limited. Is it a surprise that our modern and decadent world yet struggles with the social issues of control and colonization? Is it a surprise that our modern movements around the creation of a better and more abundant world yet plod through the ecological boulevards of the colonizer? Is it a surprise that Paddy won the day?
After closing the gate, life opened in front of us. A great chasm of opportunity developed as its energies gathered, like a wave in a storm, like the sunrise, like fungi in the soil. Life opened. Inviting us to jump in.
All life depends upon the freedom to move, to be. But what if we’ve focused all too much on the movement and its management and not the freedom and its being?
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