Not even aspirational

[greenstorm]

I keep trying to write something about how people think nature is a metaphor for goodness and humans are a metaphor for evil, how returning to nature is supposed to be returning to happiness by escaping the evil of humans, how they view nature as ease and human systems as work.

I want to write something that alludes to other human cultures and how work must be put in to other humans to live with them in nature, as well as work being put into nature itself.

I want to allude to the hard physical work of the world.

I want to make a very strong statement about how viewing nature as a metaphor for happiness, for goodness, and for ease erases our connection to actual nature and also diminishes our ability to find the happiness, goodness, and ease we're looking for.

I want to mention that human society follows rules just like nature and is probably more amenable to your changing a small part of it to make it comfortable for you, and use that to flip the reader's perception of nature.

I want to shake people a little, to break through their preoccupation with metaphor and give them a taste of the world itself that they idealize so prettily in their mindgames. I want them to catch a glimpse of something alien and beautiful, the thing I see every day.

But I don't care enough today. I've had my morning in the sunshine. After work I'll go home and eat a salad. People can sort themselves out.