“One needs to study what kind of body the current society needs.”
“Music used to be a collectible, now it’s a disposable. ” Ron Stone (Levy 7) “One bulldozer can do the work of ten men. ” Victoria Pauli (Jacinto 2) We begin our account of disposability with a look through the eyes of nature. Floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes and forest fires de...
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| Summary: | “Music used to be a collectible, now it’s a disposable. ” Ron Stone (Levy 7) “One bulldozer can do the work of ten men. ” Victoria Pauli (Jacinto 2) We begin our account of disposability with a look through the eyes of nature. Floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes and forest fires destroy human beings, human artifacts, domestic and wild animals, domestic and wild plants, rocks, soils and insects. Nature is indifferent. This indifference signifies the identity in the register of physical elements of all existing things in the physical universe. All existing things, whether as refined as a cut diamond and an opera singer or as rough as cold lava and arctic ice, are composed of a limited number of different elements. Existence in turn signifies a register of impermanence or transience. As far as we know, no existing thing lasts forever. As far as we know, not even the basic elements of the physical universe last forever because we do not know if the physical universe lasts forever. Our known physical universe could conceivably become the material for the creation of another universe with different basic elements. Through the eyes of nature, everything is disposable. If nature is a divine creation, as maintained by some religions, or if nature is divine itself, as also maintained by some religions, then humans are not privileged by divinity. There is no logical basis in a theocentric worldview, in which nature is part of divine creation, for morally privileging human beings apart from other existing things. In nature’s behavior everything that exists, including humans and all of their products, is dispensable, disposable. Everything is potential material for transformation and for change into other uses and forms. On a different scale of nature that affects human beings more than any things, humans are even more likely to die: Earthquakes and other natural disasters may grab the donations a but preventable diseases claimed 160 times more lives last yea people, says a report published today…. Last ... |
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