Survival

Survival of the fittest. Interesting concept, the fittest survive. Not the one who is able to outsmart the system, the one who is the nicest, the one who is the best. The fittest. What is fittest really though? Nowadays it is the person who can live the longest, have the most money and be able to get whatever they want. This is the fittest person especially in a capitalist society where the goal is to get all the money. Then we look towards nature. The fittest is the creature who can hunt and forage and usually work with their pack, unless we are talking about lone creatures. This is where we started out. As hunters and foragers who relied on each other to survive. We still rely on each other and some still hunt and forage, but the number who produce and the number who consume are drastically different. Hardly anyone is self sufficient or even sufficient within their community. We have tried and tried to separate ourselves from nature but that's not the way to go. Nature can teach u so much yet we have decided to use and abuse it. Without a full knowledge we have taken species, changed landscapes and altered habitats. Why have we not embraced that side of ourselves and learned from them?

Many cultures worship spirits that have to do with nature. The water god, the god of fertility and the god of death. These societies are seen as primitive yet they are probably better off. They do not have constant communication with the world or running water or any luxuries that we have yet they are more in touch with each other and know how to fend for themselves. Who is really better in this situation? If tomorrow all of the technology was gone and we all had to fend for ourselves and live off of the land like we once did who would survive?