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bitwizeyesterday at 11:51 AM1 replyview on HN

Maybe natural complexity is not supposed to be something we deal with, just something we live with. Adapt ourselves to, move in harmony with, rather than trying to adapt nature to our whims. The trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us; maybe our duty here is just to shut up and listen.


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Terr_yesterday at 6:47 PM

> Maybe natural complexity is not supposed to be something we deal with, just something we live with.

Your ancestors did that, and invented unknowable gods and spirits to explain/blame everything on, so that people can give up trying to understand or manage the unmanageable.

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