Materialism and the Mother
Materialism in its philosophical sense asserts that only matter is real and that everything including human consciousness can be explained in terms of matter. As a political doctrine it places the highest value on material well-being and material progress. In its everyday sense, it refers to a preoccupation with material needs and desires rather than spiritual values. In all these senses the material world is the sole reality, or at least the only reality of importance.
Behind materialism in all its forms lies the figure of the great mother, as material reality, as mother and nature, as the economy, as the welfare state. She is now known as environment- enclosing and containing us, the source of nourishment, warmth, and protection, but we are also utterly at her mercy, for the environment is uncaring and merciless; it devours and destroys.
Although many materialists have a romantic side and implicitly acknowledge the life of nature in their private lives, most of them explicitly deny it, adopting the conventional view of mankind as the only truly conscious, purposeful species in an otherwise inanimate world.
The mechanistic theory of nature has acquired such prestige through the successes of science and technology that it now seems less like a theory than a proven fact. But as science itself develops, the mechanistic worldview is being progressively transcended. Is Nature coming to life again within scientific theory?. And if it is... Well you and I know that most consumers don't give a shit! Thay are to sedated with Pharmaceutical drugs, alcohol, refined tobacco and factory farmed meat.
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