“What does domestication mean to yall, and how do you think it relates to anarchy?”
Domestication can happen in a variety of ways, some I think are pretty antithetical to liberation, others are pretty much directly in line with anarchist values.
I think that, in its best form, it is the way our or another species biology is changed to better live with the species around us without violence and for a combined and circular system, in which we meet a need for each other that we each could not have met for ourselves. I think this is something we especially see in plant species with long mutual relationships with humans, where humans adapt (socially) to effect an environment in a way that changes the growth habits and biology of that species so that it benefits the humans more, and also makes that species more abundant. In an ideal system, these changes have positive effects on other members of the ecosystem. I think fire dependent environments in North America hold many examples of this, like with Camus in the pacific north west. I also think we see this with fruiting species like the American persimmon or the hickory family (carya).
In the worst cases of domestication, I think it is our species utterly subjugating another species on a biological level to strip away not just their autonomy, but also their relationship with ecology, and their ability to participate in the environment. In these worst cases, we force these species to become engines of climate disaster, ultimately leading (potentially) to our and their destruction.
Most domestication is on a spectrum between these two cases, with elements of both. I personally think that most individual species can be an example of either, depending on the context of their domestication and their ongoing relationship to the world around them.
