Most of us live such isolated lifestyles. The modern work environment is sitting at home. The modern entertainment environment is sitting at home. Door Dash can feed you like a baby bird while you open all your packages from Amazon cuz nobody shops in person anymore either. This, in my humble opinion has changed our relationship with nature.
When you've never experienced something, and all of a sudden it hits you, the effects can devastate the most competent of people. New situations with different challenges and real consequences will naturally select a hierarchy. Out of the chaos of nature, man desires order, comfort, and security. Those who choose to make the decisions concerning resources like food and water but also human beings are placed in a higher rung while the feeble occupy the lowest.
In a crisis situation we run to the strongest and most competent. If you were in a burning building you want somebody capable of carrying you out. Imagine if instead we forced the fire companies all around the country to hire paraplegics. The house is on fire and you're trapped, the door bursts open and you see a guy in a fire fighter uniform but he's blowing into a straw to move his chair forward towards you. Would that give you hope or would you be saying your prayers and looking forward to the afterlife?
It's not the paraplegic's fault that you don't have faith in equity. In fact, it shows your deep rooted internal bias for able bodied people. That may sound like a joke but like most good jokes its at least partially true. We want strong, able bodied people to save us when we are helpless. This goes for natural disasters too not just house fires.
The span of our lives usually consists of mostly dull moments that are then spun into a whirlwind of chaos. Natural disasters happen, people die tragically, but the earth still moves on. All the people outside of your sphere of influence and your geographical area have no clue what is going on with you and otherwise can move on with their lives because they are unaffected by what happens to you. Someone in South Dakota isn't worried about the hurricane that just hit Florida the same way a person who didn't evacuate the island they live on.
Now, if that person in South Dakota has been using the internet to connect with that person and they've developed a relationship that could change things. Even if the two different people in this example didn't know each other, the person in South Dakota is now capable of viewing in real time what is happening to the other person in Florida.
Our natural desires and traits to empathize with one another and to help one another are carried in the air and across cables to create action on the other side. Its an unbelievably miraculous but a very human creation. Spawned from our desire and abilities to communicate. It can order rescuers to swoop into an area to save people or it can direct prayer for the lost.
The other side of it that we see quite often is the destructive tendencies us humans have. People wishing harm on others, mocking them in their time of need, but the most common still is apathy.
Its unavoidable, how am I supposed to care with limited time and resources to use a bit of that to help rescue the slaves in Yemen that exist there now because of what my government has done?
Am I and the rest of my friends gonna surround Taiwan in some boats and warn the Chinese not to encroach on our ally's territory?
No. We leave that to the other human invention, one that has plagued us with issues all of our existence, we leave that to government.
Nature can make you take shelter for your safety but only man can force you to. You are free to forage in a thunderstorm but if man decides that you need a vaccination to gather resources from the grocery store, you may encounter monetary or physical consequences.
For what took centuries for people to materialize the thoughts of liberty and to organize governments to ensure its promise it has taken a few decades to reverse that course of thinking back to dependence.
Instead of being dependent on nature, which is why we used to pray for rain, and pray to prevent famine, now we look to science and corporations to take care of those problems for us. For all of the failures of man's order we still haven't learned from where we came from in nature, that our frail human minds will succumb to the temptations of power, lust, and greed.
If you want a system that lasts and makes sense it has to be one that acknowledges both nature and the nature of man. The radio, the T.V., and now the internet have distorted our understanding of that nature.
Somewhat thankfully we are so small in comparison to the natural order of things that whatever deluded reality we can force upon the world through the internet can't hold up in nature.
Nature is the ultimate multiplier of change. It can move the tectonic plates you're resting on the same as the foundation of the building you are in now. The human alternative is a bomb.
As we see disaster happen to our countrymen in Florida the world creeps more towards war. War is the human element of change used to supplant others in the hierarchy. Was is used to push new cultural rules, institutions, and currencies. Like other disasters it can happen on the other side of the world and it seemingly doesn't matter in our cushy living spaces and neighborhoods, as long as its not us fighting and dying on the streets we'll part with a few dollars to fund it, regardless if we want to voluntarily.
That's the real missing element to all of this, how much of what you do is voluntary?
And who are what is responsible for that?
I have no problem seeing people take shelter from the storm but I got a big problem with those who would force someone to take shelter when they could be out saving people, gathering resources for survival, or any number of instances where my grasp of the situation is not absolute.
The further up the hierarchy, the further that person is removed from the consequences of their orders. Centralization is a natural occurrence but it takes a human side to allow Liberty. It takes faith to allow men to live as they see fit unless they violate the aggression principles. It takes wisdom, something you might not find a lot on the internet, and probably by design, to reach these conclusions.
We may never break from the order of nature's power over us and our existence but the nature of man can be combated with knowledge, compassion, and action.
If we are called to save people in order to do it we must always acknowledge both the nature of the universe and of ourselves.
and notice how the hot head is reasoned with and the calm head changes into cold, active planning. Whether it is politicians or mafioso, the actions are always the same. Now that you've witnessed the Sunday Punch of the Royal families, looking to make their population reduction goals of 2030, this film gives a look at real human behavior, when it comes to "just business". Even when it looks or sounds personal, it's always about the money.
We're all in the same boat boss! We just need be paddling in the same direction. Well, just long enough to get us clear of this mess anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCylDFbZLOI