The Loss Of Adaptation

A brief philosophical meditation on the failure of theory and adaptation, where wind, sand, flower, and sea become figures for a self that has drifted away from reason.

An argument that begins in ecology and turns into moral diagnosis. 'No path of least resistance exists now / for theory has trailed the wind,' and 'the wind is turning to the sand / with a destructive sneer,' while flower, earth, and the things under them 'feel movement pushing through space' and give clear acknowledgement: 'All feeds all / and all is plenty.' Against this fully participating world the human stands as the lone defector - 'But as the sea seems seperate from the land / so the position of self has gone astray from reason.' The title's 'loss of adaptation' is thus not biological failure but willed estrangement, and the load-bearing word is 'seems': the sea only appears cut off from the land, which implies the self's separation from reason is likewise an illusion it chooses to maintain rather than a fact it suffers.