Good to see you writing again Thea. I have missed your essays. Always make me think. Regarding regeneration, several things come to mind. First, as you rightly mentioned here, we seldom look deep enough into the underlying systemic causes that have resulted in our current ecological crisis. And I would go further and look at how seemingly incapable modernity is with facing the inevitability of death. Regenerations doesn’t just magically go on and on forever. It requires decay, composting, in other words, death. Not to over generalize but modernity itself (which has been going on for a long time) is one of the main root cause of our crisis. It’s inability to see things relationally, animate, etc. For regeneration to occur, Modernity itself must do as all things must do, and decay into something capable of giving new life. I wonder what it would be like for modern humans to regenerate a noble relationship with dying?
Good to see you writing again Thea. I have missed your essays. Always make me think. Regarding regeneration, several things come to mind. First, as you rightly mentioned here, we seldom look deep enough into the underlying systemic causes that have resulted in our current ecological crisis. And I would go further and look at how seemingly incapable modernity is with facing the inevitability of death. Regenerations doesn’t just magically go on and on forever. It requires decay, composting, in other words, death. Not to over generalize but modernity itself (which has been going on for a long time) is one of the main root cause of our crisis. It’s inability to see things relationally, animate, etc. For regeneration to occur, Modernity itself must do as all things must do, and decay into something capable of giving new life. I wonder what it would be like for modern humans to regenerate a noble relationship with dying?