#aidos — Public Fediverse posts
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re: butterflies, deep time, and climate change
“When you enter the grove of a god, or meet a true poet or prophet, these several feelings should arise as one: awe, reverence, and the kind of inhibitory shame that keeps you from doing or saying anything profane or sacrilegious. The person who has no inborn sense of aidos, who can neither sense nor respect the force fields surrounding the great powers, is in danger…To describe our era as the Chthulucene is to recognize that Gaia is responding to our having released such titanic forces from their confinement. One-hundred-year floods, forest fires the size of nations, record-breaking heat waves: chthonic forces now mess with our affairs as they haven’t since the glaciers last descended from the poles“
Harper’s Magazine published Lewis Hyde on The Geological Sublime.