safety illusion

Like the seatbelt on the plane

Are we not us the ones are dangerous?

At their core, safety and sustainability concepts are geared towards the same objective – preserving resources. And when it comes to safety, the resource that is in question is the human workforce. These goals pertain to protecting labor rights, promoting safe workplace conditions, managing hazardous chemicals, etc. But on the wider spectrum we fear nature, not only because can kill us in many ways from a virus to hypothermia. Because our ancestors fight plages, hazards. But there is an idea exploded and sold through the idea of generate views on decades of documentaries showing us how the lion is killing on the sabana.

Alexis Henderson wrote : "our most fundamental fear: nature’s capacity to remake, or perhaps more aptly unmake, us. Because our anxieties toward and about the wild aren’t rooted in fear of the wilderness itself, but rather fear of our own capacity for brutality and evil. In that way, dwelling with the wild undermines and even dismantles the fragile illusion of our civility and sense of control, forcing us to accept the darkness that is inherent to our own human nature.

To avoid this grim truth, we project our vices onto nature and distance ourselves from what we cannot accept. We keep to the paths well-traveled, lock our doors at night and draw the curtains over the windows so that only a little moonlight leaks in. We learn to school ourselves in distraction and denial.

Perhaps then, our fear of the wild unknown is simply an effort to tame ourselves, to contain the feral parts of our nature that we attempt to quell with the delicate trappings of the “civilized.” Because, in the absence of those trappings, we’re forced to confront the fact that the darkness we fear most is that within ourselves."

Can we make human evolution really safer for ourselves and what surround us or safety was always on the end a matter of illusion?