However, connecting this to Abbey's reading, can we ever know that the Mesh originally looked like, or what its original framework was. If we can, can we get the Mesh back to that "healthier" state, or can we at all since we don't know what to recognize as a pure and healthy Mesh. Since we are apart of the Mesh, we can't imagine ourselves (humans) outside of it. What would the Mesh and, therefore, the environment be without us?
Monday, October 18, 2010
Messing up the Mesh
During our discussion on Morton's the "Mesh", I feel like I still have conflicting images of what that is. I understand that we are all apart of the Mesh, but does that mean that we have corrupted/eroded the Mesh that we live in? Since we are certain points on the Mesh (not restricted or limited to, just concentrated in), we have the capabilities to poison the rest of the network with our actions. Since we have poisoned it, environmentally, that means that we have poisoned ourselves as well.
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This is why I always think that those people who go on about how the world would be better without humans are silly. Humans fill an ecological niche just like everything else. Or at least they did before everything spun out of control.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm saying is that at one point they had to have an ecological niche, because nothing exists without it.
And there's no guarantee, if humans went extinct, that another species wouldn't step in to fulfill the role of destruction. And they could be even more ruthless and selfish. The idea that the world would be better without humans is really incredibly anthropocentric.
I don't think, as I understand it, that there ever was an "original" mesh. As Morton describes, the ET is forward thinking... and so the mesh is at once timeless, timely, and out of time. As I wrote to Amelie above: keep at it, Cait. These mental gymnastics are great!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jas!
ReplyDeleteI agree Amelie, that another species would probably take over our "corrupting" rolls (if we wish to see our presence as negative).
However, I also think that it is interesting there is so much destructive results to our actions against the Mesh. Even when I say that though, I don't know if we are even capable of going "against" the Mesh. We may act unexpectedly (like creating plastic or styrofoam), but this assumes that humans have a higher power over Nature that I don't necessarily believe in.
We may ask Nature to go along with us on a couple of detours, but we never actually are driving the car. We aren't even in the passenger's seat. We're just the annoying kid in the back having to go the bathroom every once in a while.