"The functionality of Nature structured by labor, and the
corresponding functionality of the subject structured around needs,
belong to the anthropological sphere of use value described by
Enlightenment rationality and defined for a whole civilization (which
imposed it on others) by a certain kind of abstract, linear,
irreversible finality: a certain model subsequently extended to all
sectors of individual and social practice. This operational finality
is arbitrary in such a way that the concept of Nature it forgets
resists integration within it. It looks as if forcefully rationalized
Nature reemerges elsewhere in an irrational form. Without ceasing to
be ideological, the concept splits into a "good" Nature that is
dominated and rationalized (which acts as the ideal cultural
reference) and a "bad" Nature that is hostile, menacing, catastrophic,
or polluted." -- Jean Baudrillard, "The Mirror of Production" (pp.
56-57)
Gathatoulie
And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.
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