Spartan Mothers

Nature’s relationship to life and death.

Dead western wood-pewee hatchling thrown from nest. Photo by Douglas Balmain, 2021.

Nature’s mothers are Spartan. Our families have left the Way. We keep our compromised alive through artificial intervention, further stressing the Earth we’ve overpopulated and over-leveraged. We pour them through the intake of a machine that has amassed its wealth from the recurring revenues of the chronically ill, with no regard for quality-of-existence.

​Which model shows care and which cruelty?

Originally published at https://www.douglasbalmain.com.