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Finally, is it really about "to simply be aware of it in the first place"? Everybody is "aware" of "it" today, and it drives people nuts and into despair. And as long as "it" doesn't increases solidarity with all living beings, pity and compassion with all, it still keeps being an autistic navel-gazing. Awareness is not the thing needed but compassion and solidarity. Because it's rather compassion and solidarity that keeps the hubris at bay, esp. when the hubris comes in the form of "planet saving" "world changing" "ending the climate catastrophe" etc., which is not different an attitude than the one that brought us into "the" "mess" in the first place: that we treat the world to our liking.

To put things differently: When and why did the things around us stopped being neighbours and became mere objects, objects, that is, capable and suitable to be the carriers of our emotional projections? Because there is no real difference what you project – fear, greed, aesthetic pleasure, moral worth, etc. – as long as you have something to project on. Turning the world into stuff we can exploit without it having a meaning of and from its own, coming into our sight only inasmuch as it fullfills the role of obedient carriers of our projections, that is the major aspect of the tragedy of the past 60 years. In this the #counterculture was no less instrumental than the other "movements" as well as Capitalism brute.