It is my most sincere Hope that Peter Pan will get this message via sub-space in 1959. That he'll get to my prison...aka "Home" in that time period, and rescue me from the next near 60 years of hell, and assorted annoying bullshit called "Life". (There's 1959 me below.)
"Yes I know all about the World of Men with their Greed Wars Cruelty, and Madness. You exterminate whole peoples you murder babies children you poison the land the seas the skies. Yes I know your world well. Which is why I rescue as many of your little ones as I can"
Stay Tuned.
Z, it is civilization that is the problem; that, and the illusion that we are rational beings.
ReplyDelete"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It could turn out like Emerson says. But not all civilizations have been as destructive and dysfunctional as ours is.
ReplyDeleteSome say it's bad news when agriculture appears, especially grain-based agriculture. That's when granaries, stores and concentration of wealth, taxation, slavery and warfare tend to develop. I wonder if it would be possible to have a society rich in arts and culture, but that is based on horticultural food production - viz., mostly gardens and food forests - rather than agriculture? Might be worth a try.
The notion that humans are rational could only be invented or believed by silly self-aggrandizing monkeys.
Z
Jared Diamond called agriculture "The Biggest Mistake in the History of the Human Race". He's right. But we can't have a population of 7+ billion and be hunter gatherers. The problems we face today are so serious that it is likely we will self-extinguish. The fact of the matter is that all species go extinct and we are no exception. The difference with our extinction is that we have had a huge hand in creating it.
ReplyDeleteI say good! The mess we have created is not worth living in.