Animism is Normative Consciousness
The Emerald
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We Sacrifice the Immediacy of the Moment
It's not so simple to pinpoint exactly when and where the loss occurred. The church made nymphs illegal. Science made them irrelevant. World war one and world war too marked a profound loss for this animate vision. Once human beings know that they have the power to destroy the entire world, it's difficult to raise our eyes again to nature. For it's balms. A nymph might venture to an old greek battlefield to shed a tear for soldier dying of a sword stroke. But bombs, why would they be party to such idiocy? We may find fashioning a life focused on convenience isn't convenient at all.
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