Movements for animal rights are not irrational denials of human uniqueness; they are a clear-sighted recognition of connection across the discredited breach of nature and culture. Biology and evolutionary theory over the last two centuries have simultaneously produced modern organisms as objects of  knowledge and reduced the line between humans and animals to a faint trace re-etched in ideological struggle or professional disputes Between life and social science. Within this framework, teaching modern Christian creationism should be fought of as a form of child abuse.

The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

Ta'Ra

The whole of human history is nothing new, the whole of your personal story is nothing true, you can do with it whatever you want to do — flick a switch, scratch the record off, look behind the veil. Anything you don’t want, discard; anything that hurts, let go. None of it’s real, you know — all that pain, all that regret, all that doubt, not thin enough, not a good enough mum, not a good enough son, not a good enough bum. You are enough; you’re enough; there’s nothing you can buy or try on that’s going to make you any better, because you couldn’t be any better that you are.

Drag your past around if you like, an old dead decaying ox of what you think they might’ve thought or what might’ve been if you’d done what you ought. That which needs to burn, let it burn. If the idea doesn’t serve you, let it go. If it separates you from the moment, from others, from yourself, let it go.

The hard part is when everyone around you thinks they know who you are and they try to lay claim to you and you are trapped.