King Krávoka
An infection of Your universe.
Anthropomorphic animal races are commonly associated with veneration of an ironically anthropocentric "nature" entity, or being a caricature of a specific culture. The former is barely separable from the latter as generic "Nature worship" is a sort of deformed idealization of tribal religions. Actually, all cultures recognize an innate connection to the divine inside nature, then animal symbolism was branded as both foreign and retrograde because it was consciously rejected by...I am not calling it modernism. Autonyms gain power from being respected. It's Cheapism now. You're not supposed to fight "the current sector of time" when You're actually going to war against "an obsession with creating the most inexpensive and simple society".
The specific reality called "Nature" can only exist from a human perspective, no species can regard themselves as an aspect of the Natural reality, except ironically for humans themselves. This is because humanity created the concept to distinguish the external biome from Their controlled pocket reality. It's useless for other living beings, but its root concept as a differentiation between territory and and the unconquered world is a direct part of -actual- nature. And it's also Our nature to create an artificial reality in conflict with the Natural reality. Cheapism represents an escalation of this conflict, as the beginning of a period where humans rejected practical or beautiful designs so that it would be easier to create unnatural objects. Its architectural form is most commonly improved by planting trees around the design, and it works, however this emphasizes the distinction between structure and nature.
The fursona cottage industry is an application of Cheapism to animal symbolism, at least in the function of the former and form of the latter. Despite trying to relate themselves to non-sapient therefore "Natural" entities, they have ultimately connected themselves to a significantly "unnatural" system through their consumerist tendencies, and they choose to express completely unnatural beings. Starting at an abstract level, there is the sapience of the characters, which expresses the antinatalist's nightmare that anthropogenic reality can emerge without the existence of humans, therefore it's in Nature's nature to create the means of its own destruction. Then there is the use of fur colors that're nonexistent in mammal life. Their neoteny and secondary sexual characteristics are even more exaggerated than that of the human body, primary ones too depending on the art, suggesting that furries have overcame natural (ie terminal) selection for a longer time than the human race, leading towards a more sexually selective evolutionary course.
So the furry community will dress cartoon animals in a recreation of their surrounding civilizations, You have Your African hyenas, Egyptian cats, Russian polar bears, and the modern world gets common domestic animals like dogs, cows, and cats (plus inheriting foxes and dragons from Medieval Europe). There are fantastic and retrofuturistic reimaginings of these cultures to go with such characters, this thread is likewise conflating the theoretical furry characters with an caricature of the furry subculture, and the rest of modern society to some extent.
So this civilization has been like Us for a very long time, enough for it to indelibly alter their gene pool. They are probably not future humans or artificial beings, just something which has converged into a representation of "furry", coincidence versus metaphysical guidance isn't an important question. It certainly wasn't artificially guided, this idea loses its identity if it leaves the liberal spectrum, so no posthumanism or breeding programs. I don't think that modern civilization can not indefinitely survive from a single world, but they're modelled after a terrestrial form of societal and biological life, meaning that they use some form of interplantary travel that doesn't require more than a generation in space. With the scope of space and time established, they can see the following cycle happen:
Stage 1: Planet settled to establish a primary economy. A new world is discovered with natural wealth to export.
Stage 2: Primary economy is strong enough to motivate a secondary economy. Industry moves to the new world to save on travel time and fuel.
Stage 3: Population sufficiently develops for a tertiary economy to exist. The wealth from other industries, combined with the cultural development of the working population, allows for the superstructure to become its own industry.
Stage 4: Primary economy closed due to looming threat of overexploitation. Resource seeking economies are moved to newer planets.
Stage 5: Secondary economy closed due to better supply elsewhere. The planet now entirely runs on a tertiary economy.
The decadent processes of the interplanetary web are KNOWN; they have been analyzed in both theory and practice. They are CONTROLLED; local governments and interplanetary corporations collude to extend, accellerate, or terminate the cycles of individual worlds. Every stage transition may fail, some stages may persist for unique local resources. It is necessary that most will fail at Stage 5. However it goes, the planet is left innundated with plastic and metal, and that's where weird colors come in. Their livers have evolved into sophisticated biological dye plants where persistent toxins become quasi-natural pigmentation (QNP), encouraged by sexual selection to be displayed in vibrant patterns of fur, feather, or scale. These organs recognize other foreign toxins as part of the chemical feedstock, which gives greater incentive to drug abuse (the drugs still affect their brains).
So
The specific reality called "Nature" can only exist from a human perspective, no species can regard themselves as an aspect of the Natural reality, except ironically for humans themselves. This is because humanity created the concept to distinguish the external biome from Their controlled pocket reality. It's useless for other living beings, but its root concept as a differentiation between territory and and the unconquered world is a direct part of -actual- nature. And it's also Our nature to create an artificial reality in conflict with the Natural reality. Cheapism represents an escalation of this conflict, as the beginning of a period where humans rejected practical or beautiful designs so that it would be easier to create unnatural objects. Its architectural form is most commonly improved by planting trees around the design, and it works, however this emphasizes the distinction between structure and nature.
The fursona cottage industry is an application of Cheapism to animal symbolism, at least in the function of the former and form of the latter. Despite trying to relate themselves to non-sapient therefore "Natural" entities, they have ultimately connected themselves to a significantly "unnatural" system through their consumerist tendencies, and they choose to express completely unnatural beings. Starting at an abstract level, there is the sapience of the characters, which expresses the antinatalist's nightmare that anthropogenic reality can emerge without the existence of humans, therefore it's in Nature's nature to create the means of its own destruction. Then there is the use of fur colors that're nonexistent in mammal life. Their neoteny and secondary sexual characteristics are even more exaggerated than that of the human body, primary ones too depending on the art, suggesting that furries have overcame natural (ie terminal) selection for a longer time than the human race, leading towards a more sexually selective evolutionary course.
So the furry community will dress cartoon animals in a recreation of their surrounding civilizations, You have Your African hyenas, Egyptian cats, Russian polar bears, and the modern world gets common domestic animals like dogs, cows, and cats (plus inheriting foxes and dragons from Medieval Europe). There are fantastic and retrofuturistic reimaginings of these cultures to go with such characters, this thread is likewise conflating the theoretical furry characters with an caricature of the furry subculture, and the rest of modern society to some extent.
So this civilization has been like Us for a very long time, enough for it to indelibly alter their gene pool. They are probably not future humans or artificial beings, just something which has converged into a representation of "furry", coincidence versus metaphysical guidance isn't an important question. It certainly wasn't artificially guided, this idea loses its identity if it leaves the liberal spectrum, so no posthumanism or breeding programs. I don't think that modern civilization can not indefinitely survive from a single world, but they're modelled after a terrestrial form of societal and biological life, meaning that they use some form of interplantary travel that doesn't require more than a generation in space. With the scope of space and time established, they can see the following cycle happen:
Stage 1: Planet settled to establish a primary economy. A new world is discovered with natural wealth to export.
Stage 2: Primary economy is strong enough to motivate a secondary economy. Industry moves to the new world to save on travel time and fuel.
Stage 3: Population sufficiently develops for a tertiary economy to exist. The wealth from other industries, combined with the cultural development of the working population, allows for the superstructure to become its own industry.
Stage 4: Primary economy closed due to looming threat of overexploitation. Resource seeking economies are moved to newer planets.
Stage 5: Secondary economy closed due to better supply elsewhere. The planet now entirely runs on a tertiary economy.
The decadent processes of the interplanetary web are KNOWN; they have been analyzed in both theory and practice. They are CONTROLLED; local governments and interplanetary corporations collude to extend, accellerate, or terminate the cycles of individual worlds. Every stage transition may fail, some stages may persist for unique local resources. It is necessary that most will fail at Stage 5. However it goes, the planet is left innundated with plastic and metal, and that's where weird colors come in. Their livers have evolved into sophisticated biological dye plants where persistent toxins become quasi-natural pigmentation (QNP), encouraged by sexual selection to be displayed in vibrant patterns of fur, feather, or scale. These organs recognize other foreign toxins as part of the chemical feedstock, which gives greater incentive to drug abuse (the drugs still affect their brains).
So