tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032021663606908819.post9030228770770648003..comments2024-01-20T21:17:03.430-05:00Comments on "Sweetness, and Light": "Bright Burning"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914769586760504627noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032021663606908819.post-41949674886064050772016-12-10T16:00:05.626-05:002016-12-10T16:00:05.626-05:00Pretty much.
However Evolution yes has made a maj...Pretty much.<br /><br />However Evolution yes has made a major mistake with letting us develop extreme self awareness, and a bit of a talent for cooking interesting shit up.<br /><br />Big mistake because if we're careful we can beat that Murdering Bitch at her own game by making our own Evolution our own Biosphere our own Heaven, and Hell. <br /><br />...and everything in between.<br /><br />We're on the verge of all this gleeful jazz right now. Just need a very little more time, and a few doses of dumb blind luck.<br /><br />Evolution will help us with the latter as she foolishly always does to assorted species.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12914769586760504627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032021663606908819.post-187023973150611822016-12-10T08:17:16.892-05:002016-12-10T08:17:16.892-05:00Evolution is brutal. 99% of all species that have...Evolution is brutal. 99% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. We are now well on our way to our own extinction. <br />The Bambi view of nature is totally false. Nature is violent, amoral, and nihilistic. If you look at the history of this planet, you will see cycles of creation and destruction that would offend our morality as human beings. But somehow, because it’s ‘nature', it’s supposed to be fine. <br />"It's always been assumed that the evolutionary slope reaches forever upwards, but in fact the peak has already been reached, the pathway now leads downwards to the common biological grave. It's a despairing and at present unacceptable vision of the future, but it's the only one." -J. G. Ballard, "The Voices of Time", 1960<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com