I appreciate your input Ash, very unpretentious and candid. I often wonder where the world would be without any communication beyond personal interaction. I think it might had been a wonderful world for the early explorers not knowing what they were going to find in their travels. Nothing is really unknown these days and preliminary examination sometimes removes the need or want to travel to specific locales. Even on a local level we can scrutinize a location to aid in the decision making process of moving somewhere else. Much of the mysteries in life are gone, it's all just an open book now.
On Aug 27, 5:21 pm, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > As a kid I learned well the need to keep candles, all the crabby > griping is not lost on me. I hope one day I can pick through it all and > say to my kids of various things, 'Just don't get caught without it!' > and teach them to use it. Immediate survival aside, if the state of > nature is an extended stay, that's a damn good reason to maintain > community and communications. How quickly would turmoil insue without > our TV, radio and internet? I can imagine a percentage of the population > going gladiator simply because they didn't get their WWF or NFL fix. > Yes, I have very deep seated instinctual troubles with the concept of > hysteria, I call it my 'Neandertal' genes. > > On 8/26/2010 10:28 PM, Slip Disc wrote: > > > I was thinking that I hadn't seen Pogo in a long time. But in all > > actuality I get all my news online, don't order any printed news media > > and truthfully I don't follow any cartoons, well not anymore that is. > > I think it is time we start our own minds eye cartoon strip. > > > Memory fades and we will dissipate into history as all those before > > us. Imagine when electric lighting first came out, how the elders > > talked about using candles > > > On Aug 26, 7:48 pm, gruff<[email protected]> wrote: > >> See my reply to Darkwater, Slip. They both gone. > > >> On Aug 26, 4:11 pm, Slip Disc<[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Ah yes Pogo, I remember that. Is he still syndicated? > >>> I would agree that we are getting better at understanding our > >>> intellect and how to better apply it. The days of brute force are > >>> subsiding even though it still occurs. > >>> On Aug 26, 1:38 pm, gruff<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> "... On Aug 26, 8:59 am, Slip Disc<[email protected]> wrote: ..." > >>>>> Not having control of our intellect does not negate our intellect nor > >>>>> our superiority on earth. We are fallible and have intellectual flaws > >>>>> which cloud our inherent superiority. We have the tools but sometimes > >>>>> we're not really sure of what to do with them. Toss in ego and greed > >>>>> and the problems become more transparent. > >>>> I would add that we are slowly gaining more control over our intellect > >>>> and perhaps even more important, over our emotions. > >>>> The rest of your statement is neatly summed up by Pogo (see above) in > >>>> that we are our own worst enemy.
