We Are On Autopilot When It Comes To Nature: A Robo-Systemic Society

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This Article Is To Piggyback Off Of, “Robo-Systemic Society: A Disconnect From Nature”

I apologize as this will not be a “fight to stop climate change and pollution”. Though I am a big supporter of the following, this article is more about how we are blind to our surroundings(nature). The main causes of this blindness is an inflated push for capitalism and a combination of normalized business accommodation. I compare the way we treat nature as not just a neglected child, but one that we kind of care about and go into autopilot/self-driving mode. We fall asleep behind the wheel while our cars drive us; we miss the birds, our trees and plants. Missed visuals and interactions is exactly how nature is treated.

We must stop and realize how the systemic society has caused many of us to be disconnected to nature. The disconnect is so great, that we are programmed to a system and nothing else outside of it.

I want to give an example. The greatest cause of this disconnect is with work….. There is no question that we are in a capitalistic society. So much so, that it has interfered with everything in our lives. These interferences directly impact not just nature, but the nature within ourselves. Below is a list of how work impacts our connection with nature:

• At work, We may not be hydrating ourselves. All living organisms need water to survive. This separates us from nature indirectly. We are shown that we can go without drinking it and we must be martyrs to the line of production.
• At work, we do not take breaks to eat in order to meet company quota. Food supply is within our nature.
• At work, some individuals work 8+ hours with very little time to get fresh air and be with nature. With only 24 hours within a day, much of it is spent at work or sleeping. Where is the time to be a human within nature? We are no longer within nature, we are out of nature.
• We have became more of robots than people.

**Disclaimer: I understand that the bullets mentioned above will be meet with the rebuttal of, “nobody is forcing you to not eat, drink or overwork yourself”. To counter this, I would like to mention that a person does not force themselves to not do…