I realized a few days ago that my comments about physicality and the importance of embodiment don't take injustice into account.
Some of us on Earth have hardly any food to eat. Those of us who do have food, often have little more than aisle after aisle of genetically modified junk waiting for us at the grocery store.
Some of us have no medicine for what ails us. Others of us have far too much, too invasive medicine.
Some of us have no shelter from the cold and rain. Others live in mansions.
Some of us have no reasonably clean water to drink, and at this point, none of us have unpolluted air, unless we're rich enough to buy oxygen or filter our air 24/7.
Some of us don't have access to the internet, some of us are addicted to it.
Some of us, due to lack of condoms, risk disease, death by childbirth, and raising a child in poverty if we choose closeness with another human. Others of us relieve boredom via casual sex.
The vast majority of us have access to just tiny fractions of the money and physical resources accumulated by a tiny minority of people who are emphatically not interested in sharing.
No wonder some of us don't like physical existence and want to escape it.
Being sick, being poor, being homeless, don't feel good.
Unfortunately, escapism does little to solve the real source of physical agonies. The fact that we are in bodies is not the reason for our suffering. Being in bodies could feel good if our souls took humanity's physical pain seriously and starting making new choices, if our souls had the willingness to learn what it takes and do what it takes to make love and respect for everyone on this planet a physical, embodied reality.
Some of us on Earth have hardly any food to eat. Those of us who do have food, often have little more than aisle after aisle of genetically modified junk waiting for us at the grocery store.
Some of us have no medicine for what ails us. Others of us have far too much, too invasive medicine.
Some of us have no shelter from the cold and rain. Others live in mansions.
Some of us have no reasonably clean water to drink, and at this point, none of us have unpolluted air, unless we're rich enough to buy oxygen or filter our air 24/7.
Some of us don't have access to the internet, some of us are addicted to it.
Some of us, due to lack of condoms, risk disease, death by childbirth, and raising a child in poverty if we choose closeness with another human. Others of us relieve boredom via casual sex.
The vast majority of us have access to just tiny fractions of the money and physical resources accumulated by a tiny minority of people who are emphatically not interested in sharing.
No wonder some of us don't like physical existence and want to escape it.
Being sick, being poor, being homeless, don't feel good.
Unfortunately, escapism does little to solve the real source of physical agonies. The fact that we are in bodies is not the reason for our suffering. Being in bodies could feel good if our souls took humanity's physical pain seriously and starting making new choices, if our souls had the willingness to learn what it takes and do what it takes to make love and respect for everyone on this planet a physical, embodied reality.
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