The diversionary human is a composite of many gods and values coming together in history — hand gods, soil gods, cloud gods, tool gods, rain gods, drought gods, insect gods, plant gods, animal gene gods, brain gods. It is the convergence of these that caused the rupture at the outset of history.
The diversionary human is marked by three moves: the setting of boundaries between and among the gods, rendering them as mere things; the exercise of will upon those things, and the execution of their movement and re-configuration according to that will.
The destructive forces of anti-life that emanate forth from the diversionary human are not its primary effect, but are secondary to its core imperative, which is control. Life-destruction occurs in the fragmentation of the assembly and the encapsulation of the gods, whose very life depends upon their interpenetration with one another and the unimpeded flow of forces and values within and among them, the living assembly.
There is a pitfall to avoid here, in thinking the diversionary human to merely be the biological human behaving under certain conditions or habits; the diversionary human is a pattern imprinted upon the world by the historical configuration of mundane objects in real space. Buildings, roadways, communication technologies, agricultural techniques, shipping routes, social and educational institutions, medical and pharmaceutical institutions and goods, biological homo sapiens, all of these constitute the diversionary human. They are its very body, a globe-spanning, self-replicating death machine.
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