Challenging The Roots Of Man’s DestructivenessYou know progressive thinking has become a Procrustean bed when the Guardian features articles entitled, “I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. Citing philosophers without mentioning Cartesianism, Challenger’s somatophobia doesn’t begin to address the mind-body problem, much less than the increasing destructiveness of humans on the Earth. It’s simply false to insist that humans are whole beings,” when in fact we are fragmented and increasingly broken creatures. Such a philosophy manages to both completely miss the mark by failing to address man’s unique destructiveness, and uphold the very separateness that the author decries by implicitly venerating separate selfhood. In leaving it there however, and neglecting to passionately question the causes of man’s destructiveness, the roots of human consciousness remain unexamined and unchallenged.