Newfie wrote:If we were Wise we would know what our objective is. Or maybe even that we need one.
Newfie wrote:Ibon,
Because for a long time humanity was a marginal species, at times verging on extinction, our “objective” became species survival. We had low populations so our genes coded to maximize our self propagation. We are still stuck in that mode. Our objective is to reproduce.
That objective is now working against our species survival. Can we adjust?
Can we truly accept our medicine and humble ourselves before the limits of the natural world. Not conquer Nature but learn to live in harmony with it?
Newfie wrote:At the time of the French Revolution the populace was being heavily taxed. I recently read the tax rate was over 90%, 11/12ths is the quote. That sounds astonishing and I can’t verify the accuracy of the number, but it’s clear that much of the populace were hungry and felt poorly used.
Now that does not prove a revolution is imminent, or even likely, but possible. Pot, and smack, and coke, and booze, and high fructose corn syrup, internet, and celebrity news are among new inventions that tend to keep the populace subdued.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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