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by netizen-936824 1944 days ago
Are humans not part of nature?
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Sometimes it feels like corporate advertising/marketing very much are not. Honestly, most of corporate America feels like soulless money robots, very much anti-human.
Possibly your concept of “human” needs updating, since “corporate America” still consists of mostly humans.
A cynicist's take would be that "corporate America", what with its laser-sharp focus on remorselessly exploiting everything and everyone for own profit, is actually very much human, as that is exactly what most humans have done since the very beginning.
“Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1881-1906)

You 'can' AutoTune and Grid the humanity right out of your music, 'should' you care to squeeze all the humanity out of your art.
If you include humans as part of nature, then isn't literally everything part of nature? The common phrase "let nature take its course" would have no meaning then.
You are correct, it has no meaning