Let's be honest. It's all a scam, isn't it?

I recently went to Yosemite National Park for a little vacation. As usual, when confronted with overwhelming natural beauty, I experienced a moment of clarity out there.

The scales fell from my eyes. Nature, our Mother and Father, our Womb, our True God, sat before me, doing nothing. The trees competed for space and water, as did the undergrowth. The burnt-out pines rotted. Animals searched for food, and played. The rock seemed to sit silent, though I knew it was moving.

Everything moved, without human intervention. I was reminded of Alan Weisman's book "The World Without Us," in which he documents the rebounding of nature in a post-human world (http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html).

But what really brought me back to myself was the sudden realization that the world is already "without us." All of our explanations of things don't change the pines creaking in the wind, speaking their own language. All of our pollution and murder, our unchecked expansion, doesn't change anything fundamental.

Why not return to that state now? Before we're actually gone. Our true predator is ourselves...obesity, cancer, heart disease, depression, AIDS...these are our own doing. We fight them, but in fighting, give them power. Better to stop fighting. To stop doing all the time. All of this doing. Getting us nowhere.