Carolyn: Great Leveler? Oh...I don't think we need to look any further than ourselves to find it. And it'll probably be after a fashion similar to what happened to Rome. There's a line of thinking that has pondered the why behind a Rome, which was motoring along through history on all 12 cylinders, imploding via its aristocracy and ruling class going mad a la Caligula/Nero style. Over a few generations time they basically fell apart.
Why?
The line of thinking goes it might have been greatly helped by Romans use of a then new, very high tech, metal (for them). Because this metal was so pliable the wealthy used it to make everything from their plumping, to their dinner ware, to their goblets which they used to drink their acidic wines. The new metal? Lead. Extrapolate what THAT does a few generations down the line. Yeeeesh!!
Anyway, this same line of thinking makes one wonder what we, in this day and age, are doing which is similar to the Romans folly. Extremes of pollutants being dumped into our air, land and sea which then turn around and crawl right back up the food chain to us. And it goes on and on. Yup....as far as Levelers are concerned I don't think we need look any further than ourselves. As bright a species as we are; we sure are dumb.
John~ |
