And the project of the United States is the main concentration of violent values. However, the worldviews that have proliferated are those that center ownership, competition, supremacy, violence, and accumulation beyond need. We are a complex species with many many worldviews. We interact with the other species of Earth and with the planet itself as if they exist only to serve our greed, hunger, innovation, exploration, and assertions of dominance. In her collection Lilith’s Brood, Butler described our fatal human flaw as the combination of intelligence and hierarchy. Unfortunately, over the centuries, a growing number of us have come to feel superior to the other life-forms on this planet while simultaneously making decisions that endanger all life. Our evolutionary ancestors developed a capacity to reason, which means that we have everything we need in order to find ways to be in an abundant relationship with a fertile planet that makes food from sunlight and cycles through endless iterations of beauty and regeneration. Butler called Earthseed-a variation of the mix of stardust, oxygen, cells, mating rituals, photosynthesis, and dirt that makes up everything on our planet. We humans are Earth, Earthlings, what Octavia E.
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