The Australian Aboriginals, Tasmanians, and those from some nearby islands lived on their own planet, and for thousands and thousands of years, so many thousands that it seems impossible, they developed peaceful cultures and ways of life dedicated to the care and vigilance of that world of theirs. The physical and the spiritual. Which were one. In that time, many that called themselves civilizations entered and left the world with astonishing ease.
They were hunter-gatherers, whose magnificent intelligence was intertwined with belonging to the world. And, in turn, they had developed a very rich spiritual environment of rituals and abstractions, still almost impossible to decipher and understand for a modern human. In the event that they are also very intelligent. Their 'GPS' system through songs and their boomerangs can serve as a thread to get an idea of those peoples.
Far from there and in many fewer years than they had of stable and continuous development in Australia, other peoples separated from that way of living the world and developed agriculture and the dominion of animals. Gradually domesticating many of them for their service. And labeling and walling up the planet. And inventing private property. The supreme act of physical and psychological separation from the other and the other.
That system made them monotheistic and that unique god, newly invented for their needs, made them believe they owned the world and, even more, with the right to appropriate the unknown. Slowly, but relentlessly, they were changing the face of the earth and everything wild, especially forests, jungles, marshes and the like, were transformed into pastures and croplands. England, the great colonizer, is a basic example of all this and how they treated the aborigines, a symptom of what would end up happening to the entire planet.
For that reason, we should understand that what is still wild for that human being is a danger, a defeat, an opportunity for nature to stir and reconquer them. You have to put yourself there to understand the hatred of the wolf, the wild, the protected natural spaces and all those things ?that for them are?, that the progressives have now been given ?is their way of insulting? to protect, including respect and good treatment of domestic animals.
Part of that society of farmers and ranchers, then merchants, industrialists and technologists, is seriously concerned about the future of the world. And access to technical information, plus the evidently dark that life is becoming, drives them to try to reverse the situation.
But two things happen. On the one hand, the number of those who do not want to change anything and continue to believe that their processes of colonialism of the planet and new planets, and their new technologies will end up solving the problem, or making it passable, is still greater. Their capacity for work and suffering is more than proven, as well as their capacity to annihilate whoever and whatever if that is beneficial or simply opposes.
And, on the other hand, those who want to change the course of modern man's existence have it very complicated, because one thing is to destroy the planet and another very different is to rebuild it. You know, the glass falls and breaks into a thousand pieces with incredible ease, but its parts never bounce back and become a glass again.
Any attempt to reconstruct nature will always go through a very long process of trial-and-error trial-and-error and you can be sure that in each error the others will fall on you without mercy. And now take this to the issues of repopulation of both plants and animals. What I mean is that the important thing is not only the speculative and constructive and appropriating process of the environment by man. Many times it is simply because leaving something wild behind is like leaving a wound not well healed. There is fear, even if it is only that a small island at the end of the archipelago remains uncolonized. And more if it was already done and retreated.
The other great difficulty that this sector prone to recovering nature, or parts of it, has is that they have a monotheistic education and culture or are simply atheists. And without a magical and powerful mental construction that roots you to the world, the task is almost unbearable and sterile. The hunter-gatherers had an almost unmanageable 'commissary' for it. I remember that there is a group of young people in jail for wanting to rebuild an abandoned town.
And you ask yourself, but if that is agriculture, you contradict yourself. And I say that the problem is that the bolsonaros, who are billions, do not believe that those with those looks and without believing in God are on their way to agriculture. No, they see it as a step to then go further. Towards the wild and magical side. With the wolves and the spirits of the world.
Since I was a child I always saw them desperate, suffering, envious and greedy, fearful and drunk and, above all, jealous. Following a religion of which they did not respect or protect even a comma of the last sentence and that they used only to ask for forgiveness for I don't know how many millions of sins that they had invented. And, above all, liars. A world, relationships in which telling the truth of what you did or felt was a catastrophe, in such a way that for thousands of years the most distinctive feature of that type of intelligence was the ability to lie. The concealment of being.
All my life I have dedicated myself to observing that event and I left the schools because they only served to confuse me more. Of course, they were not made to learn to live. But they justified them to me that without them it had been worse. And I do not doubt it. But what occupied me was not to live less worse.
No one can imagine how far I had to descend in my mind to know who I was and why I was like that. There is not a single moment in the thousands of years that preceded me that were not of suffering, collapses, abuses and all the miserable misfortunes and deaths that one can imagine. I came to think that we were the nightmare of a very, very sick mind. The same mind or mentality that decided in its day to raze the face of the earth, you know: "And God blessed them, and said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; exercise dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky and over every living being that moves on the earth."
There were still no rockets and satellites. Now it would be: "grow, multiply, and dominate the earth, the seas and the entire universe". Now we enter a new cycle; we are no longer going to continue labeling the earth and creating more pastures; well, finish with what remains of jungles, seas and what the ice uncovers and can be used.
Now we begin to label life, to enter into the depths of life and manipulate it to our convenience, and new forms of private property and modifications of plants, humans and animals will appear as we already did with some coarser and slower mixtures, but now at breakneck speed. For this purpose, the monotheistic god is already uncomfortable for them, now there is a new god: Money, Research, Order and Security (GOD). The new devil, the alternative they say, is CHAOS.
We will see how the tensions between this new god and the old one are resolved. Because the underlying interest is the same. For now, the US sets trends. They don't have to argue. Let's say that being an atheist is no longer a sin if you are useful for the cause.
The world that comes out of there is unimaginable, as unimaginable will be the suffering that will have to be endured more and more towards the psychic than the physical. Because, as at the beginning of agriculture and the domestication of animals, we return to trial-and-error trial-and-error. But it gives me that the errors that come out of the 'test tubes' are going to be epic.
But, as I say, everything will depend on whether the one in the nightmare endures it or finally wakes up desperate. I know perfectly well what it feels like in that awakening. And where you wake up. So there are those summits of Gran Canaria, its tensions between agriculture and the return to the natural. The aboriginal spirits and the new rich lands for technology. In the south, in the circus of the south, in the Cirque du Soleil all that is represented in a masterful way. Of course, in a biased way. 'Totem' is the name of the work. Gran Canaria.
One can see through the scattered crystals that the plate had to be the most beautiful on the face of the earth. But, even so, seeing each piece is a marvel. But I have the privilege of listening to the music and the whispers that unite them. Only for moments, then the roar of the planes and others begins and I have to return to the dream to be in the world.
On that great island, for some thousands of years, humans lived life without deforesting or dominating. So when you see the parish priest on duty clamoring against the Canary pines, know that he is only doing his job, to the letter of God. In other words, the pines are part of original sin. And the declaration of Risco Caído and the summits as a sacred place has offended them in the deepest part. The only sacred thing is the virgins and their hermitages.
