Dear anonymous

To the anonymous douchebag who just sent me an email courtesy of the contact form on this blog telling me that I’m an idiot for stating that humans are outside natural order, grow a pair of cojones and don’t hide behind the cloak of anonymity.

As for why I think humans are outside natural order - think about what natural order entails. A dictionary definition is “the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws”. Subject to natural law. It has been a good few years since I studied evolutionary theory (not a science class but a philosophical one), but I’ll state the same argument that I stated then - humans are no longer subject to natural law. We invent medicines to heal ourselves and extend life expectancy, muck about with genes, have means of controlling our climate and instead of being affected by nature and natural law, WE affect IT.

Not having done the study into the evolution of human society, I couldn’t say when we moved outside natural order, but I’d say that it had something to do with the moment that we began focusing on things that we WANT but do not NEED - the beginnings of ‘culture’. We need food, but we do not need ‘cuisine’. We need clothing, but we do not need ‘fashion’. We need shelter, but do not need houses with paved courtyards and white picket fences. We need to communicate (danger there, food here, etc) but do not need music/songs, paintings, poetry or stories.

I’m not saying that any of these are BAD things, just that when it comes down to the basics of survival, they are unecessary, and our species is one that no longer focuses just on survival and continuation of the species but has gone far beyond it, which is my reasoning for saying that human beings are outside natural order.

Don’t be an ‘anonymouse’, if you disagree, then grow a pair and leave an articulate argument as to WHY you do.

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