NATURE bites back (gently) : "Vita Com Mensa"

World War Two, that Very Bad News War, can now be seen as the peak of NON-RENEWABLE MODERNITY, both the apogee of the Modern Age and also its nadir.

Since then, people have wondered just what belief system would and should replace Non-Renewable Modernity.

I believe Non-Renewable Modernity's best replacement can be described as " VITA CON MENSA" .

That is the view that that 'all Life dines at a common table' .

In other words, Commensality, in its broadest and most generous sense.

Yes I admit much of this can also be seen asPost-Modernity.

 But its almost 75 years after Kristallnacht and Munich.

We have been Post Modern almost longer than we have been Modern !

Isn't about time this new era got a name of its own, instead of just being the negation of its predecessor ?

Isn't time for Humanity to admit that it isn't beyond and above Nature and its material limits.

Isn't it past time  that we accept that we are embedded in Nature and Nature in us, like it or not.

And shouldn't we accept that all life forms are interdependent on each other for their very survival.

I believe before we can begin saving this burning planet from ourselves, we must learn to think and feel differently. 

We must cast off all traces of Non-Renewable Modernity and start embracing Commensality as our new credo.