Human Degradation

In a natural state of existence (i.e. free of any set of laws, nations, or customs) we find the human, an animal existing in unity with the world around it. Eating when necessary and merely living to procreate. No other reason for existence can be found. To imagine the radical transformation from such admirable animalistic simplicity to a state so detracted and forcefully seperated existence of modern life is a daunting task. Regardless of the billions of years of growth and thought (more recently:thought control) we stand here today in what we percieve to be the world that settles our feet and still nourishes our bodies much as it did for our early human grand parents. We still rely on the sun to bring about the changes that make this world habitable. The water still cycles, the trees still grow, and the plates still shift. Despite all these grand similarities in pre-historic and modern life we find ourselves today, vastly disconnected from the pure survival mentalities of long ago humanity. No longer is the world a scarcley populated world toiling through the natural process with few worries similar to the concerns of modern humanity. It is obvious that of these vast worldly changes Western "Civilization" is the pinnacle of natural seperation. Where people once lived to flourish off of the fruits and marvels of the land, now have been exchanged for pent houses, malls, banks, and prisons. Instead of walking to find sustainance in nature we drive miles to purchase trendy items portrayed to us as "necessity" by a culture that has the influence of television seemingly formatting at will the ideas and beliefs of the apathetic (apathy taught through TV, careers, technology, etc.) masses we find drudging through their daily lives. No longer is the connectivity of mutuality seen through our life of natural sustainance and simplicity, but through the divisions that societies and their architects have fabricated. Our natural simplicity of sustainance has become perverted into societies that so far remove our ability to merely eat that we are coerced into long tasks of hardship to maintain life. Creating jobs, systems, and enforcement require labour. The kind of labour that lift up and hold the foundations of everything you have in modern life. Without labour no cars, no roads, no garbage collection, no water, no computers... nothing. The life line of this process of seperation from natural humanity to modern humanity has been the ability for ruling classes to create an atmosphere of coersion and control pushing the now heavily populated world into hard labor for the survival of complicated systems of trade, control, production, and warfare. But existence fo these labourers is not an easy one. Through the formation of broad based financial systems that we call "economies" we have doomed ourselves to a life slavery unlike that of natural humanity. Labourers toil long, hard shifts to ensure modern life trucks along all the while being stood on and pushed aside by the actions of a ruling class so wealthy and powerful I feel we often underestimate the power in which they wield. Through imprisonment, a system of credit, and overall the complete control over the use of the earth itself, elites control every aspect of these labourers lives. Everything from basic survival to how they may interact with other workers (i.e. union busting). These workers create the foundation for what we all know and yet we and they tolerate a system of utter exploitation and personal degredation. Is it not inconcievable how we have allowed such events to seperate us from the simplicity of nature? Noe we must work for a lifetime to acquire the minimums of our survival. Add in the excess of capitalism and you have a lifetime of worry, doubt, and pain due to a complex society of concrete walls filled with contracts and meaningless credit reports. How have we lost control over our species and its destiny? We have traded ourselves in for a shell of an existence peppered with constant advertisments in the attempt to sell us a watered down system of thought. So here we are... perpetuating this everyday. I'm guilty as well. But how do we do these things to one another? Why do we stand for it? Does anyone even care?