Work can be an invigorating process. To labor, to create and to see ones efforts amounting to something useful and meaningful feels good. Indeed, the relationship between work & natural selection has a spiritual nature nigh on heroism.

In this age the abstraction of the work process is taken to heights of utter absurdity. Modern work is an undeniably bizarre process. In the natural world, an animal works when pressure is placed upon it that impacts its chance of survival (eg, hunting & foraging when hungry, finding shelter when cold…). An animal only works when it has to. Animals know that to overwork is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of energy; something that can be particularly precious to it in times when opportunities and resources are scarce, such as in winter. To needlessly over exert would spell death.

In the modern world, a persons work begins when they wake at the beginning of the day and consists of at most a handful of repetitive, systematic tasks that one performs repeatedly until the day ends. This process is relived over and again day-in-day-out for any number of years until the person falls over physically unable to control so much as their own basic bodily functions. People work without fully knowing why they do. If asked, the most a person is likely to say the reason for there working so is to "earn a living", defining their actions by the fact alone that it happens to be what they are doing ("just because"). They’re unaware that while their work enables them access to life in a utilitarian, material sense, they do not ever obtain access to life in any qualitative way.

A fundamental difference between the animal’s and the modern’s work is the direct relationship the animal’s work has with the things it needs. The spoils received from complying with the modern work process have virtually no relationship to the actual manner of work engaged in by the individual. Nothing is directly earned. To eat, food is acquired from a shop; all that may sate the appetite available entirely to hand with no direct effort needed to obtain it. Material goods such as housing are acquired without involvement in the process of creation. Travelling is done with factory built machines that require, at most, a fraction of the effort input necessary to make a journey by foot.

Logical causation is removed from the work process. Psychologically this gives rise to a state of mental degradation and worldly confusion to which many ailments in the modern age can predictably be attributed; most notably the underlying, self-perpetuating meaninglessness to peoples lives - an apathy toward life as anything more than the immediate and sensual. Worth mentioning is that this apathy is self perpetuating; The more one is distanced from the process of survival, the more one wants to be distanced from it - the less also one sees in life any reason to face even the smallest challenge or difficulty. Like cancer, unless it is cut out quickly it will spread uncontrollably and consume all stable life.

In boldest explanatory terms, the inability to see the efforts put into work culminating towards any observable, cultivatable end result renders human life spiritually empty and physically emaciated - devoid of any true sense of place or purpose.

The true means to life, while earnt less mechanically, do still come with a hefty price: weakness must be conquered, fear of failure overcome and reality (particularly the reality of death) accepted. Our inability to confront weakness is the source of the woes we derive from our present system. Whilst it is essentially a more a wearying, less fulfilling way to carve out an existence, we choose it because we are afraid of the alternative; which would require us to struggle in such a way that would allow in the natural world to our lives and all its horrors and inhuman beauty.

ii : Sterility breeds parasites, parasites encroach upon life

"Expect poison from the standing water." - William Blake.

The modern employment and capital system enables people to "earn a living" without actually facing any dimension of spiritual challenge, thus reducing life to a tiring but meaningless drudgery. By the fate of their innate character, some people are able to survive only in such a world - this most sterile of climes. Certain people are sustained only by such a system and will fight with every ounce of passive aggression within them to impose and retain it. It is these people who inflict upon the better portion of humankind in ever increasing weightiness a neurotic, life-hating vision of the world.

Identifying them is not always easy. There is no simple outwardly distinguishing mark that sets apart those who would inflict a more soulless world upon everyone else for their own twisted ends; no single race or creed to which they belong. This class of person exists at all levels of society and are found whereever there is exception and brilliance, cursing and condemning it; acting maliciously to ensure nothing ever exceeds beyond what their own meagre capacities might stretch to.

As these types of human are built of weak substance, lacking a certain component that should drive them on, they are innately stunted in their capactities to perform the most basic of processes and tasks required of an organism to ensure its own survival, whether this be the acquisition of sustenance, basic problem solving or the abillity to regulate their behaviour. It can be surmised with good certainty that if such people were left to face the full fury of the natural world they would quickly fail and die. I shall stress: I refer not simply to the cripples, invalids and other assorted gross malformities of humankind but to a more subtle beast; the intellectual cripple. What sustains them is the disconnection of their lives from the most basic of evolutionary processes: survival of the fittest. Large-scale civilization affords human beings this comfortability to separate themselves from natural processes and thus, unless a civilization is kept rigorously in check, it accumulates parasites.

Civilizations are formed on basis of great individual's wills acting to life, yet no large civilization can permanently ensure its most willing alone provide its motivational force. It is the fate of all civilizations to march through phases of change, moving as they expand towards a greater amount of disconnection from the natural world. This disconnection heightens the number of people unable to live outside of it and creates on an even wider scale, the inability of its populace to enivsage a world outside of what is has costructed for itself. Thusly this allows weaker elements to possess control within society and unrealistic ideas to take ahold, further permitting the enfeebled to police the livelihoods of others. As the capacity to survive in a natural context is lost both on an individual and an organised level, civilizations lose the ability to face up to the unpredictable and catastrophic. At this point it only becomes a matter of time before the civilzation is destroyed with the greatest of ease.

iii : Reinvigorating the spirit