Zootopia; evolving out of chaos

Harmony and Balance is often however people observe the complexity of nature and seems to be the view of the Emmerson reading. So many different fauna and flora weaved together to co-habit that same environment. Emmerson believes by immersing oneself in this nature both body and mind that we can achieve some of that harmony and balance. However, a movie like Zootopia would most likely offer a counter-point to this. Nature ultimately is chaos clashing into a sort of equilibrium in my view. What order and balance we perceive is us pushing these human ideals onto nature. In Zootopia the film is about animals who have evolved into sentience and are trying to counter their previous bloody history. In the beginning of the movie it seems like they have succeeded in this. The city of Zootopia itself is a care balance of habitats designed to accommodate all species. Yet the under lying struggle and mistrust between predators and prey show us that things are not so simple.
This movie is an obvious and great metaphor for human society. This movie in a lot of ways is about racism. In the film, officer Hops theorizes that the reason predators are going “feral” is linked to biology and their old “natural” instincts. The movie however shows this a backwards thought that is ultimately dangerous and offensive. It may make some sense to us as that audience because it reflects the reality of nature in our world. A panther will naturally try and eat a bunny, it would be weird if they didn’t. Yet, in the context of this film the animals have evolved to have sentience which we cannot forget this is true for us as humans too. I feel the film would say that what separates us from animals, what allows us to reflect and bring peace of mind, to create order and balance over our animalistic instincts is our sentience. We are capable of not being controlled by our baser needs and desires. We can fight them and live however we wish too. The predators are no longer forced to hunt prey and the prey don’t have to live in fear of predators. This doesn’t mean we have completely separated from those old instincts. Humans will still often behave as our old herd instincts taught us. To be wary of what is strange and apart from the accepted group.
Overall, I think that we should aim to separate ourselves more from nature than it feels Emmerson would suggest. We are apart from it and should remain apart. This doesn’t mean we cannot cohabitate with nature. But we should not push ourselves back into the chaotic equilibrium that is nature.