What is it about nature that is so terrifying to the modern mind? Why is it so intolerable? Because nature is fundamentally indifferent. It’s unforgiving, uninterested. If you live or die, succeed or fail, feel pleasure or pain, it doesn’t care. That’s intolerable to us. How can we live in a world so indifferent to us. So we redefine nature. We call it Mother Nature when it’s not a parent in any real sense of the term. We put gods in trees and air and the ocean, we put them in our households to protect us. We need these human gods for many things, luck, health, freedom, but one thing about all - one reason stands out - we need the gods to protect us from loneliness. But why is loneliness so intolerable? We can’t stand to be alone - why not? Because human beings are children, that’s why.

But those are all disguises we create for nature. You know how people love to tell us that the science narrative privileges the balance of power. How there’s no objective truth, except for who’s got the power. Power tells the story and everyone accepts it as truth, because power rules. But who’s got the balance of power? Take a deep breath. Feel it? No? Then I’ll tell you. The balance of power lies in the hand of the entity that always holds the balance of power - nature. Nature, not us. All we can do is go for the ride and try to hang on.