The beautiful Dunedin shoreline and a large alligator in Largo ...
http://www.flickr.com/...
The only world that matters, and the only world which endures, is the living world. Everything else is temporary, transitory, and a byproduct of humankind's illnesses and delusions.
If you want to know the future I'll tell you the future:
- The United States of America collapses.
- Civilization collapses.
- The Homo sapiens go extinct, gone and forgotten forever.
If anyone else promises any other sort of future to you know for certain that that person is lying either to you or to his/her own self. Humans have demonstrated conclusively that our species cannot handle reality and it is much easier for humans to construct their own personal fantasy world rather than acknowledge mortality, fallibility and limitations.
I am weary of hearing humans glorifying humankind as if our species is the greatest animal on the Earth, the greatest intelligence in the Universe, perhaps the only intelligence in existence (supposing that God doesn't exist).
Such self-praise is always suspect.
The human character is revealed by the horrendous state of this present world in which we are living. Humans have destroyed the Earth, each other and the future of our species. These are not the behaviors of an intelligent animal.
So I would build a monument for humankind, the self-destructive planet-destroying primate, and write a message on the bottom of the monument:
Humans were smart enough to destroy the planet but dumb enough to refuse to stop.
Humankind is the ultimate lost cause, the Universe's greatest tragedy, an evolutionary dead-end, and God's greatest mistake.
Other than that all I have is praise for humankind ...
David Mathews
http://www.flickr.com/...