Mining strikes me as inherently coercive and alienating, from oneself and from the environment. I can't ever imagine a world where someone engages in mining in full consent and consciousness. And to the extent that they somehow enjoy it—the only reasonable way for that to happen is at a very low level of technological development, and by taking one's time instead of aiming for any quota of production—then what? They might enjoy mining for a bit, but then that creates an expectation of metal tools for their group, which are so powerful that the latter might want to re-shape its entire social structure around mining, and force people if needed to go mine stuff in order to grow their power.
I say this because mining is vital to an industrial society, and I don't believe that any group could ever be both coercion-free and yield the power of advanced technology, and this tiny point is I find the easiest to explain outside of the context of my worldview. Of course like all isolated points, it can be addressed with enough creativity and faith in the myths of the system, which is why any genuine critique of the world we live in has to look at the entire dynamics, from top to bottom. 3
2 To the ego that is, in truth it is merely a rejected aspect of Reality.
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