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An Analytical Study of the Old
World Civilization: A Process of Human Domestication: The
Emergence and Challenge of Homo domesticus.
A new world
civilization enhances by understanding human domestication.
This paper argues that humans have been domesticated via the
human built environment (in the broad sense) and that
present world civilization has emerged and continues to
emerge within the context of human domestication, further
imperiling the already earthly and human crisis. In this
context, present “old world” civilization refers to
diversification and intensification of domestication,
especially of humans, recognized in progressive global
social injustice and violence and ecological wrongness and
brutality. Hence, today’s world civilization refers to the
degrading and endangering socio-ecological presence of
degraded and endangered domesticated humans.
This theoretical
interdisciplinary work extends the naturist/ecologist notion
of domestication to analyze the human condition, in
particular with respect to the civilizing dynamic, in the
broad sense. Diverse academic works explore the
domestication of animals, plants, and things in general,
including the planet, but fail to identify human
domestication. While some scientific studies explore the
domestication of human dimensions, this paper treats the
domestication of the human species—Homo domesticus—in
relation to civilization.
Whereas different
bodies of activism and scholarship, most notably the Global
Symposium, posses overwhelming potentials following
ambitious paths to establish themselves as world class
leaders to research on and take action regarding present
civilization, undoubtedly and unavoidably, they find in
human domestication a colossal challenge. Endeavors of
socio-ecological injustice and violence seem advanced by
communities composed by Homo domesticus, humans conditioned
by the built environment reflected in ontological
distortion, cosmological artificiality, social
miss-organization, and dysfunctional ecology.
Whilst this paper
challenges traditional boundaries of the Academy and
political activism, to assess the implication of and
response to human domestication remains a task for artists,
scientists, and humans in general. While major international
scientific events are currently investigating human
domestication, how scholars and activists interested on
challenging and correcting global civilization address human
domestication within their academic and political bodies
marks global justice and peace oriented society and ecology. |
