Another Choice

So many, many lives.

So many, many bodies.

The old habit thus calls us back: “there, better renounce and return to the peat bog that will feed other seeds, better the oblivion in the indistinct mass, the disappearance – rest!”…

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However, we also realize, the principal cause of this weariness is our absolute dependency on exterior material inputs, of which the search, the ingestion and the digestion are the rhythm of our daily existence: a dependency that dictates most of our actions and our conduct, directly or indirectly. We dress up these indispensable practices with big words and high speeches, we invest them with all our self-importance as separate creatures: our social contracts, our economies, our cultural tracks are all either determined by this dependency or necessitated as palliatives to relieve us of some of its weight and lend it the richness of life and thought. Before any other consideration, the largest part of our life-choices are prompted by the obligation to feed our bodies and those of our dependants every single day that it is given us to live – every day God makes!

It is around this absolute imperative that our divers communities have learnt to create and cultivate their own arts of living, their customs and traditions.

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Even while evolution is accelerating everywhere upon earth, the consequences and effects of our degeneration as a species are amplifying, worsening and further poisoning.

As of today, out of the billions of human bodies alive upon earth, how many are sufficiently nourished and how many are malnourished, how many are overfed, how many are just hungry?

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