The Wilderness is the embodiment of might makes right. In the wilds, if my force overpowers your’s I’m taking your food and your baby as a snack for later

You don’t seem to grasping the difference between the inherently anarchistic nature of ecosystems where each agent is usually acting completely according to their own devices, and the macro scale stability, diversity and efficiency that arises out of the many complex ways individuals don’t have as their first instinct the desire to kill or destroy those weaker than them.

Fungi and trees communicate in large nutrient sharing networks, there are all kinds of cooperation that involve many sophisticated forms of mutual aid including extending help sometimes as a bold gesture to create the foundation for further collaboration. Wolves change the shape of rivers from preying on herbivores that feed along the banks, vampire bats have complex dynamics to the way they choose to share meals with other bats that couldn’t find a meal that night (which includes extending help as a bold gesture sometimes) your world view can’t account for that kind of subtletly and nuance to natural systems and it leaves you hopelessly ill-equipped to use metaphors of nature to try to examine or explain humanity.

edit ok the syncronicity between this metaphor and the truth here was too amusing not to add this context

The Wilderness is the embodiment of might makes right. In the wilds, if my force overpowers your’s I’m taking your food and your baby as a snack for later. Thats it. I get there are complex systems… In the Jungle, might makes right. Feel free to submit that to the complaints box (my mouth, you are being eaten). Now we can talk all day about the yin and the yang, but I’m a hungry snake and your eggs are unprotected.

Hilariously, probably one of the most common relationships between organisms on the planet is prey producing enough offspring that the predators in their environment are fed adequately and there are still offspring left even after all the predators are full. Turtles, corals, geese, and countless organisms are very successful in the situation you seem to delineate as powerless.

If we do not dismantle this rhetorical construction of a brutally simplified dichotomy between “nature’s brutal chaos” and “civilized organized humanity” we will be doomed to repeate the mistakes of the past and continously rebuild the conditions for fascism to take off like a wildfire.

Capitalism is a project in rationalizing brutalizing the poor by drawing shitty conclusions from shallow observations about how nature structures things, and it is only one example of how these brainworms destroy our ability to think critically about the choices we have made to structure our society vs. the inveitabilities…