What is the value of nature?

Nature is that which determines whether Science is true or false. A scientific idea is tested against Nature to see whether it fits or not.

This has led to Technology where Human Nature has determined which things to make or not. So while Nature determined whether something can be made or not, Human Nature determines whether it will be made or not. The Nature of Capitalism is exploitation of Human Nature, so that to express Human Nature, humans must drive the mechanism of Capitalism and make things they would not otherwise make. Essentially people are forced to get a job and to spend by paying taxes. As argued Adam Smith missed out that people are not in a market freely but are politically pushed by the Nature of ruling elites to buy and sell against their own Nature. Without Capitalism when machines would replaced labour people would have been free from labour. As we saw before Capitalism, there was a different world with far less work and consumption.

Living within a Capitalist world then we actually live reflecting not Grand Nature but the Nature of ruling elites. Our daily existence reflects the dynamics of an artificial machine. The economic news, the politics news, the concerns over costs and fashions these are all the Nature of an artificial machine. There is a critical mistake here to suggest that this reflects reality as is often done. The biggest myth of Capitalism is that it reflects human nature. It exploits Human Nature.

So Nature does not just determine whether Science is true or false, but all knowledge. And looking at Nature can show us how artificial the Modern World is. If a walk in Nature is more beneficial and has a long lasting effect on mental well being than any drug it is because it enables us to see Reality again and so gain a perspective on the Fiction of Capitalism and Politics that battles for our time.

Looking from the outside we can see animals vying for political position every day. Squabbling over pecking orders and access to resources like food and mating rights. This is Nature. Politicians fighting for power, and Capitalists fighting to own companies is all quite Natural. But the problem is that from the inside Politics and Capitalism appear to be world of their own. You can spend your whole life shopping and working and never realise what you are doing. You can spend your whole life supporting a political party and think it so important that your candidate wins, and never see what you are doing.

A walk in Nature gives us the Absolute perspective from which all other things are judged true and false.