We’re building all the infrastructure we can imagine for data.

And we no longer attend the infrastructures you and I and our living planet need…

…to simply survive.

The more you get representations, and the more we commit human and mechanical attention to their creation, propagation, copying and development… the less you get human beings. Environments. Or health. Intelligence. Social development. Peace. Learning.

In fact, the very -act of representing- causes the entire process of sympathy to crash in the human nervous system. Living beings become manipulables. And no one can notice. Because everyone is busy representing them(selves) to themselves.

We’ve been trading ourselves for images and models. The anciently conserved nurseries of life are being made into, for example, charcoal. Objects and functions. The most delicate and invisible assets first. Most of those are in our children, our potentials for intelligence and the living planet.

And what we are getting in return is museum objects. Dead referents. Clean, well-behaved objects we can store, categorize, refer to and manipulate with the soothing appearance of expertise.

While we burn our cultures and the living planet to the bone.

It’s a poison we’ve seen too often in our social, artistic and intellectual history to ignore. The shell our cultures comprise has become toxic; if we do not break it now, it will crush us within its ever-inflating projections of falsified images of our nature, our purposes, our minds and our humanity.

For a habitable or humane future we must reach beyond the frameworks we previously established and appear to trust. Like teens reaching for adulthood, we will -leave our world- of habits and perspectives… in order to invent new ways of being collectives and individuals. It will not look like what’s on sale in the toxic cultures we’ve produced. It will look like social, ecological and relational prodigy. If we choose this. And this is the choice I suggest, because that is the nature we carry, and that is why it has so long and urgently remained co-opted.

Because it is too dangerous to the stratified parasites that our old habits have become. Because it is too progressive for any standing system to survive, let alone tolerate.

Because we are human. And no compendium of words or laws shall surpass this, unless we agree.

We no longer agree.