Fighting with tigers is red-green, or Gruul by MTG terminology. The passionate, anarchic struggle of nature red in tooth and claw. Using natural systems to stay alive even as it destroys is black-green, or Golgari. Rot, swarms, reckless consumption that overwhelms.
Pure green is a group of prehistoric humans sitting around a campfire sharing ghost stories and gazing at the stars. It’s a cave filled with handprints of hundreds of generations that came before. It’s cats louging in a sunbeam or birds preening their feathers. It’s rabbits huddling up in their dens until the weather is better, it’s capybaras and monkeys in hot springs, and bears lazily going to hibernate. These have intelligible justifications, sure, but what do these animals experience while engaging in these activities?
Most vertebrates seem to have a sense of green, of relaxation and watching the world flow by. Physiologically, when humans and other animals relax, the sympathetic nervious system is suppressed and the parasympathetic system stays/becomes active. This causes the muscles to relax and causes the blood stream to prioritize digestion. For humans at least, stress and the pressure to find solutions right now decrease and the mind wanders. Attention loses its focus but remains high-bandwidth. This green state is where people most often come up with ‘creative’ solutions that draw on a holistic understanding of the situation.
Green is the notion that you don’t have to strive towards anything, and the moment an animal does need to strive for something they mix in red, blue, black, or white, depending on what the situation calls for and the animal’s color evolved toolset.
The colors exist because no color on its own is viable. Green can’t keep you alive, and that’s okay, it isn’t meant to.
Fighting with tigers is red-green, or Gruul by MTG terminology. The passionate, anarchic struggle of nature red in tooth and claw. Using natural systems to stay alive even as it destroys is black-green, or Golgari. Rot, swarms, reckless consumption that overwhelms.
Pure green is a group of prehistoric humans sitting around a campfire sharing ghost stories and gazing at the stars. It’s a cave filled with handprints of hundreds of generations that came before. It’s cats louging in a sunbeam or birds preening their feathers. It’s rabbits huddling up in their dens until the weather is better, it’s capybaras and monkeys in hot springs, and bears lazily going to hibernate. These have intelligible justifications, sure, but what do these animals experience while engaging in these activities?
Most vertebrates seem to have a sense of green, of relaxation and watching the world flow by. Physiologically, when humans and other animals relax, the sympathetic nervious system is suppressed and the parasympathetic system stays/becomes active. This causes the muscles to relax and causes the blood stream to prioritize digestion. For humans at least, stress and the pressure to find solutions right now decrease and the mind wanders. Attention loses its focus but remains high-bandwidth. This green state is where people most often come up with ‘creative’ solutions that draw on a holistic understanding of the situation.
Green is the notion that you don’t have to strive towards anything, and the moment an animal does need to strive for something they mix in red, blue, black, or white, depending on what the situation calls for and the animal’s
colorevolved toolset.The colors exist because no color on its own is viable. Green can’t keep you alive, and that’s okay, it isn’t meant to.