English history exhausts me. It’s like this guy supported collaborative education in colonies and then also encouraged evangelization and subsequent colonization of the indigenous population and then this guy designed gardens and thought indigenous pop. needed eng. to save them.

I’m just here. trying. my. best.

I just want to write about alternative views of nature (+ human’s position in it) in intellectual culture in pre-1700s Europe somewhere. I want to find ideas that aren’t exploitative, industrial, and colonial but instead annthropormorphic, humanistic, and empathetic...but will I?

I hate it here*

*in intellectual thought in 1600s England and English Commonwealth

This thread itself is somewhat relevant because I find myself uninterested in many different overlapping complexities these days https://twitter.com/goingmedieval/status/1275428451051323393

It currently doesn’t interest me to unpack colonial supporters/workers and colonial project’s views of the natural world, I am not interested in writing about the devaluation of other people in the name of English supremacy through cosmology and the nature/man/king/god hierarchy

My biggest ATM problem is that these elements themselves are interesting to me as large topics, as concepts to be fleshed out into varying opinions, understandings, adaptations, and criticisms. But looking at one person/group who all refuse to see humanity in others/nature? Nope.