In a completely rational society …

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. -Lee Iacocca, automobile executive (b. 1924

The foregoing is an explanation by a business leader in the rational society being “passed” from the first generation rationalizing the killing of large swaths of natural animal and plant life in order to grow something they, as self-proclaimed god’s stewards, preferred to eat, down to our age of the GMO/petroleum led agrobusiness with which we rape the earth everyday as a rational necessity.

Mechanical rape of Pachamama
while millions are out of work
and starving

Just the idea of passing an idea down implies the lack of respect each rational generation has for their own progeny when the adversarial understanding of nature must be embedded before they reach the age of reason and enforced thereafter just to hold the water with which nature challenges society’s goal of permanent perfection everyday. The rational society grows more and more complex with technology designed to increase control as it busies itself patching up the holes nature punches in their unshakable faith in the totalitarian approach to life as nature’s steward, owner, abuser.

Health is nature's default

—Joel Salatin