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In the worldview of dominion, the powerful individual (and by extension their cadre of helpers) rejects the perspective of the Natural community for that of a personal scope of control: This plot of land belongs to me. I own it. I may do whatever I want with it! This is the mantra. Such individuals think that they are entitled to shave down mountains, change the course of rivers, eliminate wetlands, pollute air and water, create new mountains (landfills with piled toxic waste)—all because they view nature as the other which they can own and do with it what they will. The dioti here is constructed around power to execute a personal, natural vision of what is.

Part of what is behind this worldview is what I’ve called the “egg carton” community worldview.¹³ Under this view, people wish to fulfill their nature by doing as they want without any interference from others (just like eggs in an egg carton are protected from touching any other egg in the carton). Such an aspirational vision is also thought to be possible as if we all were detachable units that can operate on our own apart from any interaction with other people or with Nature.