Name: Ballagàrraidh: The Awareness That You Are Not at Home in the Wilderness
Uploaded: 2017-03-25T04:09:51.000Z
Duration: 3 min 12 s
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and feel in your bones how strange and new this all is.

rigid justifications for why the world must be the way it is.

The story of humanity is a move from the countryside to the big city.

But it's happening so fast that our brains are still stuck in the hinterlands.

So now there's a part of you that longs to leave your car idling in traffic,

to experience nature in all its simplicity

To feel the lushness and harshness of the wild,

the clarity of eating and killing and growing stronger,

But another part of you knows that Eden is a fantasy,

and you'll always be floating just above it,

trailing clouds of civilization wherever you go.

Even our ancient symbols of nature are deeply unnatural.

The plants we eat are sterile, swollen, unrecognizable to the food chain.

Our domesticated animals are caricatures of their wild ancestors.

The family dog is just another piece of technology,

shrouded in synthetic fibers and synthetic thoughts.

Even if you sleep in the woods with a stove and a backpack,

We need to believe in the fall from Eden.

But all along, we were the ones who cast out the world.

and barricaded ourselves in a walled garden.

We couldn't handle the true state of nature—

without first dividing it up into little boxes,

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Ballagàrraidh: The Awareness That You Are Not at Home in the Wilderness

stick

experience

overwhelming

barely