"Natural" just gives people an excuse to subjugate, to keep following cycles and patterns that do shit in the end. [He is drawing from the Ark here, clearly, but it's more than that. "Whatever the hell we want" might have backfired in a lot of ways, but he still refused to follow rules that were expected - and some of it worked.]

I don't buy fate as unbreakable. [Spoken like a true anarchist.] Is that why you're so focused on shards? You think they got something to do with all this?