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“The Tenth Descent—Husbandry:

“The Progression of Increasing Insensitivity, Increasing Dimming of Awareness Allowed the “Domestication of Animals”

is Ch 10

of *Prodigal Human*

by Michael Adzema

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PH 10/1

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “ …enslavement of our family in Nature was an abominable affront to their nobility & was a scar on human character:… Our increasing drive to control made us abominations in Nature.” []

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PH 10/2

“[Chapter 9 text begins:] *Out of Anxiety, Humans Cheat in the Game of Life*

“In due time, this time not long at all, after we humans “conquered” the Flora Empire on Earth, we began “conquering” fellow planetmates of the Fauna Kingdom.”

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PH 10/3

“Having taken over the determination of the lifecycles of the Flora Empire, it did not take long for our progenitors to imagine doing the same thing to those on Earth appearing to be more like them.”

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PH 10/4

“It was not enough just to hunt & kill planetmates for food; after a while, the “brilliant” idea came to some to do the same to roaming planetmates as had been done to the Earth-bound planetmates, the flora.”

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PH 10/5

“Humans were infused with newfound abilities of conquering—like petty emperors each of us—& we extended our purview to all other beings in sight.”

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PH 10/6

“Pumped up on our desperate addiction to control & swooning with power, we captured & set to our ends the lifecycles of more of the independent Earth Citizens.”

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PH 10/7

“In this way early humans were now having even less consideration for planetmates as being independent, free beings as when they killed & hunted.”

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PH 10/8

“In hunting, we had at least a little bit of regret at the taking of lives. Our ancestors still felt a kinship with their prey, as do the gathering-hunting societies we know of in our times.

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PH 10/9

“Humans were not that far removed from the ways possible in Nature. For in hunting we were not doing anything so different from what other planetmates we saw were doing. For, clearly, there were carnivores around, & we observed them.”

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PH 10/10

“We saw that they lived free & independent lives up until the moment when a final contest—for one of them final, anyway—would involve a showdown in which one would live & achieve a delicious aim & the other would be sent on its way,…”

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PH 10/11

“…ending its game of life, allowing it to start over in another time & place.

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PH 10/12

“So when our ancestors hunted, they were the same as carnivore planetmates in allowing the independent lives, noble & free, of any of their prey until the moment of a similar showdown…”

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PH 10/13

“…in which, ideally, our prey, not us, would be freed to begin another round elsewhere. In this way, humans & planetmates were still kin to each other & were still children of the same mother, Nature.”

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PH 10/14

“However, in order to “domesticate animals” we needed to pluck our former kin from Nature’s perfect blueprint & set them to our ends, driven by our brains, crazed from early trauma.”

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PH 10/15

“Thus, it was not only the deaths of planetmates we were determining, as we did in hunting them as prey.”

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PH 10/16

“We ourselves fell prey to the obsession that we could feed our addiction for possessing & controlling the factors influencing our lives by determining the manner of their entire lives, as well.”

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PH 10/17

“It was as if, being unsure of our success in the contests of Nature—having that basic mistrust described earlier—we decided to cheat.”

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PH 10/18

“Rather than search out & engage our planetmate relatives, as before, we took their entire freedom. Humans put planetmates in place & grew them as they had done with vegetables.”

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PH 10/19

“And, as before, this meant much more work...just as farming was an oppression compared to foraging. But prehistoric humans continued the downward spiral of control leading to more control…”

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PH 10/20

“…in that [prehistoric humans] convinced themselves that adding to their days the efforts toward controlling animals would reduce the labor involved in controlling the rooted planetmates.”

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PH 10/21

“That is to say, they figured the “animals” would aid in their farming. Nevertheless, along with the work of tilling the fields, husbandry or “domestication” contributed to lives of increasing labor & sweat.”

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PH 10/22

“More importantly than that, controlling so much led to lives that were focused solely on physical needs & concerns, forgetting the ones of spirit & soul.”

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PH 10/23

“*The “Domestication of Animals”*

“Thus, we began the “domestication of animals,” as we called it. Which is hilarious when you think of it. For in these words we tell ourselves two things:”

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PH 10/24

“One, we objectify these beings with whom we share this planet. They are “animals.” We are not animals. They are wild; they must be, needing “domestication.” We are not; we are “homey” & unwild...tame & civilized despite our murdering ways.”

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PH 10/25

“We “domesticate”[these planetmates] means we bring them into our domicile, our home. We would have it that we are doing them a favor in taking them out of their stressful lives in Nature, making them guests in our homes where we can kill them.”

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PH 10/26

“Worse, where we take away any of their pleasures of being alive—of freedom of movement, of choice of provisions...mating partners...locale.”

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PH 10/27

“Indeed, that is the way we humans have thought of any that have come under our thumb & our sword—whether planetmate or indigenous peoples:”

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PH 10/28

“That we are doing our victims a favor—even if they die—of taking them out of that nasty “wild”erness & putting them into our “organized” living.”

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PH 10/29

“However lethal & tortuous it is for them to be with us, it must be better, we think, than their lives in “unruly” Nature.”

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PH 10/30

“Indeed, with reasoning such as this slave owners of all times have justified, even exalted, their nefarious actions. Then wondered, clueless, why such enslaved would rise up against them, or try to run away.”

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PH 10/31

“For sure, most folks think that same thing today about civilization vis-à-vis living in Nature. Once, a person responded to my ideas, “Oh, you want to live in dirt.””

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PH 10/32

“Once, a person responded to my ideas, “Oh, you want to live in dirt.” As if the earth was some kind of threat, needing to be wiped away continually, in some OCD kind of way.”

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PH 10/33

“As if freedom of spirit meant nothing relative to orderliness & cleanliness—those purely ego desires, those desires wrought of our fears of uncertainty, wrought of our traumas of birth.”

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PH 10/34

“& as if, outside the perimeters of the city & town, with skyscrapers, houses, paved roads, & manicured lawns, just past some border or other, it all becomes dirt.”

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PH 10/35

“There’s no rushing streams, forests, waterfalls, verdant fields & meadows, deep & cool lakes leaping with wildlife, carpets of undergrowth, aromatic foliage, air that’s alive with winged things, birds,& breeze-surfing butterflies. No. Nothing.”

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PH 10/36

“Just dirt. To not live in civilization is to live in dirt. So, thinking that way, of course any planetmates & indigenous people are better off living in houses surrounded by monotonous empty lawns than in “dirt.” How could they not know that?”

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PH 10/37

“Secondly, we “domesticate” them, which means they are beastly & out of control, “wild” again, in a sense of being threatening as well. We murdering, hunting, enslaving, controlling humans are not wild or out of control; we are not a threat.”

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PH 10/38

“I suppose as long as murder & enslavement are controlled they are seen as somehow harmonious & peaceable, especially compared to the random, the “wild” life-and-death struggles occurring in Nature.”

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PH 10/39

“Well, yes, if you look you will see that in modern times we have shown that to be exactly the way we think of things. As long as murder & enslavement are organized, they are civilized. It is the uncertainty of life we cannot abide;”

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PH 10/40

“not the threat of death. A death determined by another in some orderly fashion, we unconsciously feel, like when one goes to war as a soldier, is preferable to one that is determined randomly & by fate...catching one unawares, unforeseen.”

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PH 10/41

“For such a death—as a fighter or as “collateral damage” in war—is part of some huge organizational process we unconsciously feel to have more meaning.”

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PH 10/42

“We at least have a sense of belonging in being part of something bigger than ourselves, even if it is a war, & our death is not put upon us...wasn’t “our” fault.”

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PH 10/43

“Further, when one, like a soldier, dies, it is thought to be part of a higher cause. It is occurring, then, as if it is like it is a “higher power”—the vast society of which one is a part—deciding it, not oneself.”

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PH 10/44

“It is a higher civilized power...& at least we have died within the matrix of the machine of organized life.”

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PH 10/45

“It is not much different from the victims of Aztec sacrifices, or other barbaric human sacrifices of human “civilization,” who thought they were performing a function in some natural order through their dying.”

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PH 10/46

“Everywhere we show ourselves that the thing we fear the most is freedom; for we fear the responsibility involved in that.”

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PH 10/47

“We are so perversely lonely in the world, so cut off from Divinity & Nature, that we would prefer to be part of something that would kill & enslave us than have to be alone, fending for ourselves.”

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PH 10/48

“You will notice how true that is when you see how many folks will return to the cities to die, when the bombs fall & the oceans rise, rather than have to fend for themselves in Nature.”

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PH 10/49

“When storms larger than ever known on Earth level cities, earthquakes finish them off, virulent diseases make congregating in populated places deadly, still people will come to the cities.”

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PH 10/50

“We humans would rather die in a crowd than “alone” in Nature, you’ll see. Hey, maybe they’ll make the nightly newscast! We seek the familiar & the orderly, even to our death.”

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PH 10/51

“And what I am saying here is we cannot imagine that anyone else, “wild” planetmate or “wild” human—that is, indigenous or primal human—would not prefer that as well.”

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PH 10/52

“Yet is this organization for the purpose of “civil”ization, this “domestication” really a “home” for them? For planetmates? The way they might feel it? No. This is slavery for our planetmates.”

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PH 10/53

“Worse than that, it is prison [for our planetmates]. We take them out of thr actual home, in Nature, where they are animate, alive, & soulful; & we make them mere *things* in our world.”

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PH 10/54

“Domesticating” animals is another way of saying that we no longer see them as other beings, but only as things,.."

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PH 10/55

“…[only as things,] which were apparently placed in Nature for our use, much as we imagine the trees were put there for our use as lumber to make our houses, our domiciles.”

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PH 10/56

“[“Animals”/planetmates] are no longer our brother-and-sister beings; they have become resources.”

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PH 10/57

“Then in “domesticating” [“animals”/ planetmates], we are saying we have taken away any idea they might have any existence outside of ours: Their sole purpose in the “wild” was for us to discover how they could be used by us.”

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PH 10/58

“Just as we assume all the plants in existence were not really doing very much in growing, living, & dying in the wild until we came along & gave them an actual role in life...a real purpose!”

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PH 10/59

“[a real purpose!] you see...as our foodstuffs, as our crops, or as our medicines.”

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PH 10/60

“*Herding Was Less a Fall*

“Now, it happens there was a parallel phase to this “domestication” of “animals” that occurred in our devolution of humans. In some cases it was a preceding one. This is the mode where we began herding.”

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PH 10/61

“In this way—in herding planetmates, not corralling them—we maintained, often, still a semblance of a kind of nomadic lifestyle.”

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PH 10/62

“But there was another aspect to it, besides the benefits we retained by staving off sedentary living, which had to do with the relationship we had with Nature in this mode, compared to what we would have when we became fully sedentary.”

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PH 10/63

“For in nomadic herding, we still retained a connection to the world of Nature through the bonds we might have with the “animals” cared for.

“No doubt about it, sheepherding or any herding was less a fall from grace than was farming.”

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PH 10/64

“For in herding, there is still a felt connection with planetmates. There is still concern & care, & they are allowed a certain amount of freedom...think of Jesus as the Good Shepherd.”

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PH 10/65

“That symbol expresses the bond of caring we have with planetmates in herding them, even as we control their lives & will use & eat them, eventually.”

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PH 10/66

“For by comparison, with sedentary living & corralling of planetmates we enlist them in our farming. In being sedentary & farming, we use planetmates as things:”

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PH 10/67

“[planetmates as things:] They are used to pull other things, to be milked, to serve up thr children for consumption. etc. Hence this is a further fall from herding. With farming, planet-mates are used, grown, & eaten, as they were items only.”

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PH 10/68

“It is bc of these developments—herding & farming—which often were parallel, existing side by side, that we get the myth of Cain & Abel. We see that in *The Bible*, God prefers Abel’s offering, a lamb. For he was a sheepherder.”

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PH 10/69

“[Abel’s] offering was more valued by God...*he* was more valued by God...than Cain the farmer. *The Bible* here is reflecting that our descent into farming was graver than the one involving herding.”

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PH 10/70

“*The Progression of Increasing Insensitivity, Increasing Dimming of Awareness*”

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PH 10/71

“So it went, hunting, murder, herding, horticulture, husbandry, in terms of the descents from grace in Nature...in terms of the level of control involved & the corresponding thingification of the life around.”

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PH 10/72

“Regardless of the actual historical progression of these descents of humans—& it varied, & not only that, it sometimes reversed & even swung back & forth between modes, in some places—”

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PH 10/73

“—[regardless,] these were the lifeway modes in order of the generating of the increasing insensitivity of humans...the increasing descent into unconscious unaware living...into *ignore*-ance.”

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PH 10/74

“In whatever progression, it included the domestication of plants—their enslavement—first; then that of animals, second. & we now were controlling not just the vegetative beings for food but the roaming & moving ones as well.”

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PH 10/75

“*Animal “Husbandry”*

“We began our domination of fauna by herding them. Then like we did the plants, we began rounding these beings up & corralling them.”

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PH 10/76

“Indeed we controlled where & when ["animals"/planetmates] would mate & with whom. For our intention was to determine thr offspring to be along the lines of what we would wish.”

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PH 10/77

“Once captured, ["animals"/planetmates] were placed into our service in all ways possible. Indeed, we decided the who, what, where, when, & how of virtually every aspect of their lives, down to the most trivial.”

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PH 10/78

“Thus, we created animal husbandry. I wonder, were we now the “husbands” of our planetmates? For certainly we had taken away their rights to mate on their own as they would in the wild.”

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PH 10/79

“We humans, at this point, were so infused with our addiction for controlling that we enslaved & set the lifecycles of these once noble beings along lines that would benefit us alone, regardless what pain & suffering it might mean for them.”

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PH 10/80

“We ripped these Earth Citizens from the perfect place that Nature had designed for them. Our sister-and-brother planetmates—our warm-blooded kin now in addition to our flora planetmates—were plucked from their lives of adventure & awe…”

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PH 10/81

“…& were instead “possessed” in the same way we humans had been possessing the land we dwelt upon & the earth-rooted beings we placed into it.”

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PH 10/82

“So we kidnapped them. We beat them into things to fit our desires. We fashioned them into alien, schizophrenic molds, the products of human minds made mad by the traumas of our early lives, in particular our births.”

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PH 10/83

“These minds were fearful, obsessive about controlling, crazed, backwards thinking, & overstimulated. & we set them to focus on our planetmates & to draw them into our designs, our mad ones, & out of the perfect one of Nature.”

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PH 10/84

“And we called the perfect one “wild” & our mad one “domesticated” as if it was “homey” & nice, that way. The irony in that terminology was something that never dawned on us, until perhaps in these times.”

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PH 10/85

“Though the insanity & brutality with which we treated our nearest relatives in Nature, you would think, would have been a hint to us somewhere along the way; though it was not.”

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PH 10/86

“Regardless their feelingness or beingness, we took our brothers & sisters & kept them. We grew them like our plants. We raised, trained them. We ate their offspring. We routinely killed & ate them as well, eventually.”

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PH 10/87

“We determined when they would be born; we decided where they would live & the manner of that life. We decided what they would eat throughout their lives.”

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PH 10/88

“We took the product of their teats from them, their milk, which Nature had intended for their offspring, not us. Indeed, we nurtured & killed their offspring as we wished.”

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PH 10/89

“We fashioned garments from their fur. We took their coats from them, sheep in particular, shaving it off even as they were alive, for use by ourselves.”

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PH 10/90

“We forced some of them into lives of back-breaking strenuous labor, even making them pull the items, the plows, that we had fashioned to better enslave their sister earth-rooted planetmates. Yes, we enlisted them in our agricultural designs.”

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PH 10/91

“As well, we used them for transportation, sometimes riding upon them like we do horses & camels, sometimes requiring they pull the contraptions, the carriages & buggies, upon which we rode, like kings being pulled by slaves.”

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PH 10/92

“If they did not submit, they were beaten, tortured, met with deprivation, & often killed, cut up, & cooked for our consumption.”

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PH 10/93

“In order to use them, sometimes we needed to “break them,” to destroy their noble spirits. Again, with our over-inflation of self we saw that as doing them a favor in giving them a life in service to us,..”

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PH 10/94

“…much as later human rulers would consider how beneficent they were being in “ruling” their “subjects” & giving them places, however lowly, in the “divine order” that had them at the top.”

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PH 10/95

“We placed them in what essentially were jails. For some of them, those jails were roomy & included land upon which they could roam, though naturally we set the boundaries of them—corralling & fencing & determining they would never escape.”

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PH 10/96

“For others, we assigned lives of minimal movement, restraining them all about, in place, where we could come & regularly remove secretions or the offspring of their bodies for us to use or consume, like milk, like eggs.”

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PH 10/97

“We forced their bodies together & moved them about, at will. We collected them & stacked them & put them in piles like they were seashells or stones. We “herded” them. We tied them in place & maneuvered them as we wished.”

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PH 10/98

“Yet we poked & prodded them to produce ever more. & if we allowed their newborns to live, it would only be until we would take their lives at a later time, at our whim, & for some purpose solely our own.”

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PH 10/99

“No longer satisfied with merely hunting & killing planetmates—& being increasingly unthinking & unfeeling in our diminishing awareness, come of hunting & horticulture—we took away any sense of an individual existence for them,..”

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PH 10/100

“…outside of what we wanted of them. This was truly a separation from Nature; we were now objectifying...that is, putting outside of ourselves & turning them into things...the beings on this planet who were most like ourselves.”

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PH 10/101

“In objectifying them, you see, we were beginning the process that would have us objectifying ourselves, just as when we began killing them...hunting...we set into place the process that would have us being able to murder each other, too.”

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PH 10/102

“We captured our brother & sister beings much as one would gather up firewood.”

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PH 10/103

“We took them from their places in Nature which had been established over the course of millions, even billions, of years...a design so perfect that it could be considered Divinely crafted.”

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PH 10/104

“Yet that mattered no more to us at that time than it matters to us today that for the satisfaction of our desires it is of no matter we irrevocably alter, in mere decades, the climate of this planet that has evolved over billions of years.”

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PH 10/105

“You see, *everything became a mere casualty of our existence. Everything was collateral damage to our desires*...& still is."

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PH 10/106

“We were the biggest narcissists in Nature...big babies whose desires & wants were all important; & the Mother, Nature must die & provide them.”

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PH 10/107

“This is how we were acting out our deprivations of not getting our needs met sufficiently at our time of infancy because we were being tended to by imperfect human adults & not the perfect designs of Nature.”

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PH 10/108

“We were the beings taking from Nature & destroying our Mother in a kind of revenge at what was done to us as prenates & infants & out of an unconsciousness caused by those traumas as well.”

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PH 10/109

“*A Hideous Persona*

“Having lost our connection to Divine Providence & our sense of the God of All—It no longer being visible to us—we set our own selves up on the throne of Nature belonging to It.”

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PH 10/110

“We deemed ourselves gods & rulers over Nature & all life. But we were ugly deities.”

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PH 10/111

“Relative to the Divine Perfection that is the birthright of all beings & which is the way of Nature—the source of the apprehension of Reality as Beauty & Life as Bliss—we were clownish & pompous.”

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PH 10/112

“We had no idea of the monstrous, the devilish, the hideous persona we were actually presenting to the rest of Creation.”

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PH 10/113

“In all these ways, we gave full sway to our desires; & we were able to justify our reckless & insensitive behavior to our conscience—what was left of it.”

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PH 10/114

“How? Well, as in the other things previously, through use of the Ego we had created out of our early trauma, in defense of our pain, we turned our crimes, as always, into achievements.”

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PH 10/115

“A horrific e.g. of how grievously we [turned r crimes into achievements] was given in *The Bible* in the way Abraham was going to sacrifice his own child so as to advance his own ...ahem... spirituality...or his relationship to the “Divine.””

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PH 10/116

“In the story, God, Jehovah, is said to have told Abraham to kill his son, Isaac, in a sacrificial way. Abraham is about to do just that when a few developments derail his plan.”

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PH 10/117

“He does not follow through, yet ever afterwards—I only wish I were kidding—murderous Abraham is held up as the model of a righteous man, a man of faith.”

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PH 10/118

“The [Abraham-Isaac] story would have us believe that unthinking obedience—a complete surrender, actually a repression of our natural empathy, compassion, fellow-feelings, paternal love—is actually a “holy” (a wholly) thing.”

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PH 10/119

“Hence it is better to surrender to & act out murderous & insane thoughts & voices in one’s head than to be kind, be loving.”

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PH 10/120

“The historical accuracy of the Abraham & Isaac incident is not relevant. For it reflected our thinking at the time but, significantly, even afterward. Importantly, it shows how we manage to hide our barbarity from ourselves...”

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PH 10/121

“…[the Abraham & Isaac incident shows how we hid our barbarity from ourselves] & rationalize it as its opposite. For notice how Abraham & all the “religious” who have looked to him & his story over all the millennia managed to rationalize…”

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PH 10/122

“…[Abraham & all “religious” who have looked to him & his story over all the millennia managed to rationalize]

“a) that it made perfect sense that a person might have to kill another person, even their own child, because a “god” demanded it.”

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PH 10/123

“& b), that somehow it is a religious transformation for Abraham to simply have the basic humanity, as any planetmate would naturally have, to not kill their own kind, let alone their own children.”

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PH 10/124

“The point is that using Ego we deemed our offenses to be duties; we respun our failings as additional proof of our singular superiority.”

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PH 10/125

“However, in this chapter we are exploring the way that happened in the “descent” into the “domestication of animals,” or animal husbandry.”

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PH 10/126

“& we need to see how it followed the “conquering” of the Flora Empire & how it arose out of the same drive to control everything-and-all-about-oneself out of fear, out of that basic mistrust.”

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PH 10/127

“In retrospect this enslavement of our family in Nature was an abominable affront to their nobility & was a scar on human character: It was a great shame we bore ever afterward.”

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PH 10/128

“The point is that our increasing drive to control made us abominations in Nature. & with this latest descent it was an assault on the dignity of all planetmates.”

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PH 10/129

“*Descent to the Sedentary*

“Regardless, our control of both flora & fauna in all these ways required the most drastic change in our way of life.”

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PH 10/130

“For horticulture, & to some extent herding of planetmates, required the end of our nomadic lifestyles & the establishment of sedentary ones.”

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PH 10/131

“Yet when we enslaved our fellow warm-blooded Earth Citizens, it had a consequence completely unexpected. For in order to do that, one had to remain permanently in place.”

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PH 10/132

“This augmented the necessity to do that, required by horticulture. But still, there is horticulture where tribes migrate to the “planting grounds” for those times of the year to do that, & then they can move away.”

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PH 10/133

“Similarly, there are, as mentioned, even herders who can remain nomadic.

“However, in domesticating both planetmates & plants, sedentary living—staying in one place all year round & usually for one’s entire life—becomes absolutely essential.”

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PH 10/134

“In order to raise fauna planetmates—for husbandry, farming, & the “domestication” of them—we needed to build permanent domiciles for ourselves,..”

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PH 10/135

“…unlike all the temporary [domiciles], which had been easily put up, easily left behind, during our nomadic days. & we fixed our former friends, the planetmates, in place as well, enslaving them along with ourselves.”

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PH 10/136

“This latest phase of our controlling—of our acting out our neonatal, prenatal,& infantile pain &deprivation, involving our changing over fr nomadic to sedentary lifestyles—wud be the direst phase in terms of the long-term survival of humans…”

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PH 10/137

“…& for that matter all the rest of the life on Earth. Sedentary living—an unavoidable consequence of the combined domestication of plants & planetmates—is the one major root cause of the apocalypse looming on our horizon today."

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PH 10/138

“How so?” you say. [How is sedentary living, required by domestication of plants & planetmates the major root cause of the apocalypse looming on our horizon today?] Well, let us see.”

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PH 10/139

“The next chapters explain how the “domestication” of ourselves & Nature—the living in one place or sedentary living—led inevitably to the ecocide currently in full swing & the imminent humanicide to come of it.”

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PH 10/140

“This “settling” or homesteading is what constituted the next descent of man. To it we now turn.”

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PH 10/141

This has been a threaded version of Ch 10

“The 10th Descent—Husbandry:

“The Progression of Increasing Insensitivity, Increasing Dimming of Awareness Allowed the “Domestication of Animals”

Of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

by M Adzema

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PH 10/142

*Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man* is a devolutional look at human’s splitting away from Nature in the creation of a human nature at war with the natural.

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PH 10/143

The book, *Prodigal Human*, shows how in our creation of civilization, we locked in a human status that has us either as Controllers, Conforming Underlings, or Authentics.

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PH 10/144

We see how that change from our primal, prehistoric profile, has led us to the kind of personality today of folks who are able to end life on this planet, with hardly a second glance.

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PH 10/145

In doing so, *Prodigal Human* presents a new devolutional theory in anthropology. The book also explains how our deeper human nature, cooperative with Nature, can be regained and our world saved from apocalypse.

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PH 10/146

This devolutional theory of evolution demonstrates how bipedalism & the resulting birth trauma led to descents of humans from an original natural state, leading to misogyny, class war, hunting, sedentary living, farming, religion, & more.

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PH 10/147

The complete book is available online at the links.

you can read the book, which is posted on the blog, or you can follow the directions there & download a free copy of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*.

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PH 10/148

This is the completed document for *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

It is a pdf file, & it looks exactly as the book looks.

To read and/or download a copy, click link:

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PH 10/149

Feel free to download the book, pass it around, use it to help get word out to save the planet to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

Unless major actions by the world's governments happens fast, it is all over for life on planet Earth.

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PH 10/150

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

[e-mail]

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

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PH 10/151

Finally, if what you prefer are paperback or ebook/Kindle versions, you may acquire them at the links below.

Paperback: amazon.com/Prodigal-Human…

&

Ebook/Kindle: amazon.com/Prodigal-Human…

All my books are priced at cost or the minimum Amazon allows.

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PH 10/152

Up next,

in *Prodigal Human:

*The Descents of Man*

is Ch 11, titled,

“The Eleventh Descent—Sedentary Life...Homesteading:

“Breaking with Divine Providence & Going It on Our Own, We Begin the Diminished Living of Civilization"

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