Beyond Food and People

11 Petiver 3 7/27/2025, 7:11:16 AM aeon.co ↗

Comments (3)

zkmon · 50m ago
That's a very nice peek into the thoughts of Nietzsche. But the ship of thinking has sailed. School of thinking has closed. People don't have time to think, and much less to act. The general populations are subjects, not agents. A soldier doesn't want to think, they expect commands. The current social context only has groves to move in, not the plains to roam around. Perceived risks of self-determination are high. Let the evolution take its subjects wherever they ought to go. They deserve it. They need to find an equilibrium between the forces of nature and artificial adaptations of the humans.
evrydayhustling · 1h ago
Feels like cultivating acceptance and indifference to your own entanglements is the most isolationist thing you can actually do. To be entangled is to be biased about what's happening to you... do we think the crocodile was indifferent to the escape of his prey, or to being culled in an act of revenge?

Anyway, if folks enjoy this theme I recommend Scavengers Reign, which does a beautiful job of illustrating struggle with biological entanglement.

leoc · 1h ago