Modern humans are prone to exploitative behaviors - something worth further exploration and understanding.
One example is how we’ve come to view nature. Nature as a resource or tool to exploit. Through this perspective, we see nature as something we can take from. This seems fairly obvious, as judged by our current climate change predicament and the related disappearance of rain forests, animal species, and natural resources.
The more we treat nature as something to exploit, to take from, the further we get from holding sacred the magic of nature. There’s so much to be learned from nature - about ourselves, about life and finding meaning in places we never thought possible.
Another example of human exploitation comes in the form of self-exploitation. Interestingly, a form of this can be seen through the objectification of ourselves through technological platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
Striving to reach some kind of pinnacle of “good” performance through likes or comments. Treating ourselves like some kind of performing circus monkey (an interesting analogy that again points to human exploitation of nature).
In both of these exploitations, there seems to be a lack of understanding - of nature and of self. And how we form relationships with nature and ourselves.
I suppose the question I have is why? Why are we behaving this why? And to what end? How can we better understand this perspective of exploitation, and challenge these behaviors? How can we live in ways that are more magical, compassionate, and thoughtful?