The Western binary man, for so long bequeathed the
unreflective and externalizing faculty of power projection, has destroyed the
possibilities of communication and feedback. Now he thrashes about, growing
angrier and more bewildered in the face of his growing impotence, and the
simultaneous growing instability of his surroundings. He can no longer hear the
cries of those he smothers with his overbearing and tottering weight.
Alas, he
has existed so long without those cries that when someone actually does call
out for justice, whether in rage or agony, he only doubles over and projects
his power with more force than before. Those whose voices can lead him to
salvation have become demons in his eyes. Though after all, this may very well
be the unfolding of what has long been an essential aspect of his character: of the simplifying and separating instinct that seeks to cast complex social and ecological relations in a simplified light, so as to manipulate those relations easier in an increasingly differentiated and divided sphere of human efficacy.
