From your image, I take you to be questioning both your place in a world of cities (if that indeed is you), and the potential impacts of the way we choose to live our lives, and further, the role of technology in all of this.
Well, I agree!
Our niche is one that is super complicated, and this, simply due to the fact that we have been burdened/blessed with a detailed morality (I say it this way as I do believe that animals have some moral compliment, but one that is very different from ours, in a sense, a less detailed one).
And will Evolution please stop rolling her eyes!
:)
So while we may see buildings and associated technological growth(s) (they truly are tumours), we have no choice but to be bright and strong, as is possibly inferred by your use of colour.
In the end, staying strong and positive in this blessed/wretched niche is the only way.
yes, I think you're quite right in the 'blessed/wretched" quality of the human niche. People generally both love and hate "The Big City", it seems to be something that people can't help but admire and feel a certain amount of pride. I guess because it's a symbol of our power and dominance over our world, over nature. But that is exactly why it disgusts us at the same time, because it allows us to also see our destructive and parasitic role in the world as our cities just keep getting bigger and bigger swallowing up the nature around us. But, I suppose this is the niche that we created for ourselves, and like you said, might as well make the best of it. And of course try and change it for the better, using new technology to bring back nature.
Oh how strange is the human niche... 
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Oh how strange indeed.
From your image, I take you to be questioning both your place in a world of cities (if that indeed is you), and the potential impacts of the way we choose to live our lives, and further, the role of technology in all of this.
Well, I agree!
Our niche is one that is super complicated, and this, simply due to the fact that we have been burdened/blessed with a detailed morality (I say it this way as I do believe that animals have some moral compliment, but one that is very different from ours, in a sense, a less detailed one).
And will Evolution please stop rolling her eyes!
:)
So while we may see buildings and associated technological growth(s) (they truly are tumours), we have no choice but to be bright and strong, as is possibly inferred by your use of colour.
In the end, staying strong and positive in this blessed/wretched niche is the only way.
Ah Metropolis!
yes, I think you're quite right in the 'blessed/wretched" quality of the human niche. People generally both love and hate "The Big City", it seems to be something that people can't help but admire and feel a certain amount of pride. I guess because it's a symbol of our power and dominance over our world, over nature. But that is exactly why it disgusts us at the same time, because it allows us to also see our destructive and parasitic role in the world as our cities just keep getting bigger and bigger swallowing up the nature around us. But, I suppose this is the niche that we created for ourselves, and like you said, might as well make the best of it. And of course try and change it for the better, using new technology to bring back nature.
Yeah using technology to bring "back" nature. Whats's next? The Robo-chicken?
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