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Oh absolutely! The combination of ecological, biochemical, philosophical and psychological damage we humans have wrought onto this grand earthly presence is staggeringly horrifying, IMHO. And that opinion comes not from someone who has cloistered himself away in some city-slicker environment, to be but an armchair philosopher, but rather one who, as a fortunate part of my long professional career, has frequently ventured out into the truly wild and once-undisturbed places (Alaska, northern Europe and Canada, the Rockies, the central Australian outback, and so on.)
But then I compare that to the cities: New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, the big cities of Europe, plus Vancouver, Toronto, Detroit (Yikes! Detroi-it? Destroy-it? YIKES!!!), Chicago, Baltimore and so on. All of them are essentially terrifying, bleak and malformed abominations, well on their away to total social and physical oblivion. The fiscal-cultural wars are certainly en-route to a city near you!
Ain't it all sooo lovely? A permanent tribute to our innate ability to live clean and respectful, man! These pix reflect our lack of altruism and self-respect, a failing that comes from our past cloistered religious attitudes, our arrogance about race and color and our hot-headed tempers, so often lit by, again, someone else's religious directives and admonishments. See: the Middle East Islamic vs Christian powder keg! That will certainly be lit soon enough.
And then... BOOOM!
So what is there to like about us rodent-like invasive hominids? Not much. A very bad Evolutionary experiment, frankly. We should be sprayed for!
Absolutely, life on this planet did very well for a very long time. Now, not so much. The greed and selfish nature of man is driving more and more species to extinction.
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would the world be a peaceful place without people?
Well considering pretty much all animals are hunting or being hunted. I would have to answer no.
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is it us who create the negativity?
Well from my point of view the concept of negativity is a human creation/perception. So if humans don't exist, then the concept of negativity can't exist.
would the world be a peaceful place without people?
is it us who create the negativity?
Homo sapiens...not so much our relatives...and maybe not even early Homo sapiens, but Homo sapiens sapiens. Ever since we began to know about art...we've wrought a path of destruction wherever we've gone.
The artists will kill us all...with their abstract concepts. When someone decides to nuke the earth...it will be because of revenge, or because they think its their destiny...or something else not associated with the concrete.
Give me a Neanderthal as president any day. They may have made boats. They may have designed the first adhesive gluish substance. They can do it. Even better...if it's true that they did not have advanced vocal chords, they may have had to rely upon sign language and subtle body language, making it difficult for them to lie. An honest politician! No meaningless abstract terms like "He's a flip-flopper." The Neanderthal might very well just look at the speaker of such terms like they need to have their head examined. He or she could have the campaign slogan: Devolution...2012! Do you long for a return to a simpler time, to return to the good old days, well so does Urk! Are you looking for a leader with experience? Well Urk's people had been around for a couple of hundreds of thousands of years or more before ours wandered up to Europe and mucked it all up. We just became an agricultural "society" at most about ten thousand years ago. Ten thousand, vs. two hundred thousand? Who do you think knows more about what they're doing?
Give me a Neanderthal as president any day. They may have made boats. They may have designed the first adhesive gluish substance. They can do it. Even better...if it's true that they did not have advanced vocal chords, they may have had to rely upon sign language and subtle body language, making it difficult for them to lie. An honest politician! No meaningless abstract terms like "He's a flip-flopper." The Neanderthal might very well just look at the speaker of such terms like they need to have their head examined. He or she could have the campaign slogan: Devolution...2012! Do you long for a return to a simpler time, to return to the good old days, well so does Urk! Are you looking for a leader with experience? Well Urk's people had been around for a couple of hundreds of thousands of years or more before ours wandered up to Europe and mucked it all up. We just became an agricultural "society" at most about ten thousand years ago. Ten thousand, vs. two hundred thousand? Who do you think knows more about what they're doing?
- and Urk's people never invented penicillin or the light bulb, did they?
That's why we chose to live out in the middle of nowhere.
At least we can pretend for a while.
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