<<Thank God for those of us who like to hunt the wolf and us adopted each other.>> I have long realized the need for an English pronoun for the 2nd person plural, but I am surprised by the need for degrees of inclusiveness in the 1st person plural pronoun. Or was this some Romulus reference?
You do write beautifully, poetic, referenced and experiential.
<<But doubtless intelligence in its broadest sense is the master prize of evolution. I am in awe of man's capacity to contemplate the creation of the universe, to see billions of years into the past, to model futures that could happen and maybe one that we could bring about.>>
Of course those who admire intelligence admire what intelligence can do. [Or vice versa?] I am one also, and I can't remember the last athletic display that generated more than a yawn, but it is also true that those who use their muscles, admire those who perform with them.
<<But doubtless intelligence in its broadest sense is the master prize of evolution.>> <<Mankind was designed for extinction, but we outsmarted the universe and started to figure what it was up to.>>
Have we figured out the universe? When we grew from a child, did we abandon the first 2-3 feet of growth? Is it not still dangerous to remove an appendix, useless as it is. Our new toys of digital and bio technologies are even newer than minor surgery. Yet we place our entire species in the hands of a few, none really trained.
I am disturbed by the craving to improve upon people, no matter what the pretext. Rather I would see improvements in what we do have experience--economics, politics,... |
