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Writing here on Substack has always been kind of therapeutic for me, I hope you don't mind. Anyway, hug your animal friends. They are precious and their lives always too short ♥️

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Dec 26, 2023Liked by Antonio Melonio

Thank you Antonio🙏I see civilization as a sickness and, unfortunately, most humans living a ”civilized life”, probably I as well, are just sick ”cells” living and manifesting the sickness that is our way of living. Our civilization is a one form of cancer and all our ”progressive” persuits are just a manifestation of sickness. We have looked down on indigineous cultures because they have not ”progressed” and ”invented” the things we have. As sickness we have not understood that they have not done these things because they are healty, they know how healty beings live and they live in a healty way with everything, they see no sense in our pursuits, because no healthy being lives like that. We are manifesting sickness and we live in a sick way with everything. Pursuing endless growth is the logic of cancerous sickness and we are manifesting it in a global scale with our cancerous growths (called urban environment).

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As one “sick cell” to another, I appreciate your equating human civilization with cancer. It reminds me of John McMurty‘s great book, The Cancer Stage of Capitalism. I am afraid the disease goes deeper than just the predominant political economy of the world today. Humanity has multiplied and transformed into a blight on this planet. As a former anthropology student, I also like what you have to say regarding indigenous cultures. The vast majority of them have already experienced collapse at our hands. I am afraid that when industrial civilization inevitably collapses itself that it will take whatever is left of these societies with it. Forced to survive in a deeply altered and degraded biosphere with only dimly remembered traditional skills, their viability appears to be likewise grim. To me, that is the real tragedy.

My heart also goes out to Antonio at the loss of his best friend. It has taken me five years since experiencing a similar loss in order to recently connect with another dog. He had previously been in a shelter and I got him from a family that could no longer afford to care for him. We walk many miles a day and he has helped me in recovering from a broken wrist. There isn’t much doubt as to who is really being rescued in this relationship.

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Jan 17Liked by Antonio Melonio

I'm soo sorry for your loss. It hurts.

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I am sorry for your loss. We said goodbye to our boxer in 2019, and I continue to mourn her absence. The loss cuts deep, a pain like no other. Try to be gentle with yourself as you reflect on your time together.

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Thank you ♥️

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I am with you in this thought about how are most precious loves are not always of the homo sapiens species. I would save my wife, children and my dog before I saved an unknown human. I know that if I saved my family first, including my little dog, my efforts would be appreciated. With strange humans, it's anyone's guess. Humans are more prone to be angry over what you didn't do for them these days.

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