The Intervening Fool

Saturday, January 24, 2026

We see nature as if humans and their behaviors are not natural, like when humans have sex with children, participate in bestiality, torture one another, starve captives, eat excrement, or even end their own lives.

Some of the “strangest” behaviors in the animal kingdom include cannibalism, barbering (plucking feathers out), tail chasing, tail biting, stone chewing, virgin births, and even boat-attacking killer whales. Domestic cats torture small animals to exhaustion and leave them to die a slow and painful end. My dog, if not watched, will eat poop.  

So, what is unnatural? What is insanity? Is there a crime against nature? That would assume there is a creature or an individual with a freewill who can commit a crime against nature. What goes against nature, when all of it is natural?

Could it be that these displays of extremism show us something about Truth? The world doesn’t belong to you. The alpha and the omega are foiled in contrast. Something is the imposter, and I think it’s the individual sense of judgement and control. The idea of a wireless, unlinked autonomy that affects the world “voluntarily” doesn’t add up to my feeble brain.

Breathing seems to allow us to “intervene.” Who takes over when you stop “intervening?” Hold your breath, pass out, and the so-called automatic returns.

Could you just hand yourself over to nature or do you not consider yourself to be nature? Is there something unnatural about extremism? Maybe it is easier to let “nature” handle it. Even such an idea is foolish – like you allow nature!

If you think you are intervening, breaking a linkage in the oneness of the universe, no matter how f*cked up you think it is, you’re a natural-born fool. Dying to this foolishness, wisdom is born, and you realize nature does her job flawlessly, with or without your so-called intervention or judgement. 

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