At 02:19 PM 7/18/2006, Wirt Atmar wrote: >In Darwin's alternate universe of death and famine, we unfortunately have a >simple, easy-to-understand mechanism, one that does eventually builds the >most exalted objects which we are capable of conceiving, the >production of the >HIGHER [capitals mine, since italics and bold are rejected by the >program--WT] animals.
Honorable Forum: Many years ago my wife was being interviewed by a radio "host." He asked her about how we were BETTER than the other species. "We're not better, we're just different," she said. That was one of my proudest moments, in many proud moments, of her long career of simply doing, not bragging (that, obviously, is what I am doing here, entirely without her permission and knowledge, but it's germane to the issue). I can't help but wonder if the "evolution" of culture was not the ultimate maladaptation, and that the consequences of all population booms is a downslope trend, if not the "last frame" of the movie called, with ironic arrogance, Homo sapiens sapiens. Doubly wise, indeed! FIN wt
