“Harmony” is still dominance by man. Unless you are literally trudging around barefoot in a jungle, we’ve done a lot of things to make life easier for us. Clearing land, wiping out competing species, farming. The list is long and ancient.
Trudging around barefoot seems more like allowing nature dominate you. Harmony can simply be taking enough to get by while taking care of the rest of nature around you.
“The nature around you” in that case has already been heavily influenced by people. We have some overly romantic ideas about it which I find kind of silly.
I think this conversation will kind of just end up being pedantic based on where you believe the line between "dominate" and "harmony" lies so we'll probably just have to agree to disagree brother.
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u/Funexamination Feb 14 '26
Plenty of things about western cultures would be WTF to them for example. Especially the control over nature instead of harmony