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Journal: November 26, 2012
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Human Nature                    Idea of "Other"

WOW! Two months later, no entries but a lot of landscaping around the apartment building and epoxy artwork; many more titled art works now. Anyway .......

Gaia: Let us pretend for a moment the earth is a living organism; the organ of skin (life) is perhaps just a bacterial film on the real skin of the earth, the crust. But let’s suppose living life is an organ itself, melded in function to its “earth skin”; a joining of earth energy and sun energy; a final protective coat of varnish on the Gaia's temple of the earth. In this imaginary excursion, mountains may be organelles

      • that pierce the atmosphere (another skin on skin)
      •·wringing from it water raised from the sea by the sun
      •·to erode the mountains
      •·move it to the sea
      •·often smeared back under the mountains
      •·where it bubbles back to the surface
      •·pushing up the mountains
      •·to trap water
      •·to erode the mountains

This reproductive cycle is maintained, Gaia’s “life” continues. Of course the energy to sustain Gaia pulses deep in the core where heavy elements including radioactive uranium and thorium accumulate, beneath iron, thank to Mother God Gravity. Residual uranium and thorium also are distributed evenly in the mantle. Potassium may accumulate in the skin (crust) because of its low density, uranium may accumulate there as well because of uranium’s tendency to oxidize to less dense forms. The skin and other organs pulse to the throbbing heartbeat of the core. Life, as we usually think of it, filled the atmosphere with reactive oxygen, among other things, and is perhaps a pathogen. For this fantasy, let’s assume it’s not, but rather another integral functioning organelle in Gaia. Let’s apply some medical terminology:

      •·reservoirs become edemas
      •·cities, festering sores
      •·roads, deep slashes
      •·tulip fields, smothering blankets.
      •·etc. etc.

We humans show all signs of being a cancer on nature, at least a severe viral infection. Perhaps all life is such a pathogen, quite irrelevant to Gaia (as just an ever so thin skin) but quite relevant to us.