Totally! Adorno speaks on this a lot…
and a lot of people see morality and ethics as a sort of compass, a navigation mechanism for their journey through life. But when you think about the fact that these are social constructs, we look like animals circling a pen.

Genius! Poetry, in fact.

Yes, morality and ethics that don’t take into account the power and demands of the moment, not only interfere, but stand fundamentally in opposition to Life. I do believe indigenous moral systems exist that embrace the dictates of the moment. But the only way to get back to these, for ourselves, lies through abandoning artificiality and the obsession with looking to an authority for direction.

Totally! Adorno speaks on this a lot…
and a lot of people see morality and ethics as a sort of compass, a navigation mechanism for their journey through life. But when you think about the fact that these are social constructs, we look like animals circling a pen.
I’ll share a story that my housemate told me.

He had a friend, Jeremy, who was going through this strange period of life where he was “watching Fight Club all the time and not sleeping much”. One afternoon he was sitting at a red light at a busy street in West Olympia. And he got this sudden, uncontrollable urge to just slam on the gas. It built, and built…..and he gunned it….feeling the sort of crazy wisdom, an exhilarating, divine inspiration….
And T-boned a very large white SUV.
And then the feeling of doom set in. The woman got out of the drivers seat and said she didn’t think she was injured. But she wanted to have an X-ray to make sure nothing was out of place. There wasn’t too much damage on the car either.
So she goes and gets an Xray. And this is what happened. They found a rapidly growing malignant tumor in some obscure place in her torso, that would not have been detectable by any other means. They operated immediately, because waiting anymore could very likely have meant a death sentence.
And she was operated on, and is in good health.
And Jeremy….his parents bought him a brand new car soonafter. For no obvious reason.

So the moral of the story is that he could have listened to social convention and NOT slammed on the gas pedal at the red light. Morality would have said you shouldn’t needlessly cause car accidents.
And then there’s the universe speaking and acting through us, which requires intimacy with the crazy wisdom it carries. Morality, ethics…they could potentially interfere with that.
And thus I pledge allegiance to no side of the game, only dedicating myself to the Web of Life and the spiritual ecology we all embody.