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by devoply 3288 days ago
Well what you have is a metaphysics of the logos, of rationality. That metaphysics is 400 years old and is already responsible for geoengineering the planet, and not geoengineering in some good way but geoengineering in the most reckless way you could think possible. It's also responsible for countless other global scale experiments which have been shown to wreak havoc on the planet. Surely it's evident that your metaphysics is deeply problematic now, wait until it's even more problematic as the amount of power we possess grows. The other metaphysics, that of animals and nature, that has a history of millions of years and usually works for millions of years until some catastrophe. The only really good thing about the logos is the potential power to prevent that sort of catastrophe, but also the power to cause exponentially more extinction events on shorter time scales. Possibly even our own. I would say that your metaphysics is totally untested and experimental, where as in the metaphysics of rest of life and dealing with nature of on its terms is time tested and therefore more true.