nothing is natural in human nature

Human society has not yet operated on a timescale long enough to declare anything "natural". I am so deeply sick of videos like this one with a debate between Slavoj Žižek and Yuval Noah Harari. "Should we trust nature more than ourselves?" What an asinine question^[1].

I have yet to experience one single fact about humanity that is not influenced by humanity itself over time. Nothing, at all. Everything we can point to as even possibly "natural" is actually environmental, which, as we are learning at an excruciatingly slow pace, is recursively impacted by the myriad ways we shape the world into our image.

Or the easy things—things like gender, sexuality, social roles, justice, race, spirituality—are clearly social. They operate on a timescale that is like a gunshot compared to evolution's timescale. These things are negotiated in real-time, the stuff of headlines of dying diamond markets and rises in zodiac appreciation.

But even "genetics", that seemingly hard soil for us to rest our hard manly boots of logic on, is soft loam. Genetics are recursive, even with things we have proven to be heritable. They are informed by things that operate in realtime like societal norms and shifting patterns in human migration, access to food, and where Dow chooses to dump its chemicals. Genetics is a false "fixture" as Thinking in Systems calls them.

Basically everything about modern science has taught us that it's the stuff between that's important. And by being the first creatures we know of to be actively and socially introspective about ourselves and the systems we reside within, we have so much "stuff in between" that it sounds pointless to my ears to try to delineate between "nature" and "artificial".