I think perhaps with a minor adjustment of the quotes, that phrase is perfect:
We are the larva "teaching" the larva how to fly. On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:33 AM, 'facilitator' via "Minds Eye" < [email protected]> wrote: > I agree Chris, "We are the larva teaching the larva how to fly" (™) > > > On Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 12:12:06 AM UTC-5, Chris Jenkins wrote: >> >> We humans have always had a terrible problem with calculating scale. >> We're utterly irrational and hopelessly subjective. Even when we attempt to >> shape our world view via humanism and logic, we fall prey to insidious >> prejudices few of us are able to even detect well. We think we're much >> smarter than we are, and it's only by growing older and expanding our time >> scope that we're capable of beginning to understand how limited our view >> always was the minute before. Most of us don't live long enough to ever >> really accomplish anything remotely like an objective view point. >> >> And so, we fear plane crashes, and not car crashes, despite the latter >> vastly outnumbering the former. We say "je suis charlie" for the 12, and >> pass by the thousands dead. We only care when the PR machine snaps a >> gorgeous tragedy and Buzzfeed includes it in "Top 5 Photos From World >> Conflicts: You won't believe number 4!". >> >> When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die it's >> a statistic. Stalin said that. Remarkable bit of insight from someone who >> created some notable statistics. >> >> We Americans are terrible with statistics. We're smart enough to know >> that they're a weapon to bludgeon the less Google savvy, and we pick and >> choose to suit our bigotry. Then once a year we pour ice water over our >> heads while hash tagging #Kony2012. Verily Babylon has fallen. >> >> Hello, Minds Eye. I've missed you. Neil's been commenting on my G+ posts, >> and it put me of a mind to come see how the group's been. >> >> On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 10:29:52 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote: >>> >>> Killing cartoonists clearly can't be allowed. There is no absolute >>> authority for jihad, crusades or lacking a self-depreciating sense of >>> humour prepared to rip loved ones from the lives of relatives and friends. >>> The most common 'cause' of killing and war in primitive societies is >>> revenge, generally pretty dumb. >>> >>> On the day Charlie Hebdo was struck, Boko Haram was doing much worse in >>> Nigeria and 2000 died. Yemen was pasted again. 25 million or so have died >>> in wars after WW2 and any number of people have had peaceful lives >>> destroyed by various forms of imperialism. We understand revenge films >>> where the child not slaughtered by Barbarians grows to destroy them. There >>> are at least questions we should be asking on whether fundamentalist Islam >>> is radicalising terrorists, or the various imperialisms and the conditions >>> these create in countries kept poor and run by installed despots. >>> >>> Institutional religion is no use to me and I detest the hostility of >>> those believers who would have me respect belief in superstition,clearly >>> false history, varieties of justified sexism, racism, apartheid and selfish >>> chosen-peopleism. This extends far beyond religion and to false ideas that >>> the Greek Enlightenment was the zenith of civilisation. This was a sexist, >>> racist, slave economy. Western democratic free trade liberalism is such a >>> lie as to be merely another control fraud, not the end of history. >>> >>> There is little clarity. We stand as Charlie for free speech, yet do >>> nothing against indecent Saudi floggings and beheadings. We have never >>> produced democratic foreign policy, population control or sustained peace. >>> Now we are arresting people protesting publicly against Charlie, somewhat >>> contradictory to say the least. All that seems clear is that we are all >>> Charleys, without much of a system to openly discuss what is wrong, leaving >>> tyranny anywhere a threat to freedom everywhere. >>> >> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
