When I get hard down on the stupidity, ignorance and violence of the human race in general, I tend to forget or overlook the marvelous advances that small groups of humans are responsible for, in their effort to drag us through the muck and mire of our own destructive nature to a better future.
As individuals, the best and brightest of our species have advanced the knowledge of science and technology for the sake of knowledge.
I still see no hope for mankind as greed and ignorance pushes the earth beyond its limits or regeneration; but I have to admit the journey of the human race has been spectacular.
the Ol'Buzzard
Thanks for the link! I enjoy seeing what bright minds are doing! If only it was as popular as some of the people that make news everyday with no talent to show for it.
ReplyDeleteMankind has been around for awhile, the ice sheets only retreated eight to ten thousand years ago to bring this period of good climate but it's only the last 3000 years that the race has 'taken off'.
ReplyDeleteAll the traits of us humans hold have been with us since the beginning, the good as well as the bad. I have hopes that what ever it is that keeps us going forward will continue and that technology will find the answers to hold on to what we have.
I have posted my last post for 2014. Happy Holidays my friend to you and your lovely wife! The Mohave and Mrs. Rat!..........
ReplyDeleteI think that life is a series of ebbs and flows. I think I understand the concept of genetic altruism and how it works as the impetus in evolution, but each evolutionary path is full of traps and pitfalls. We now know that life on this planet has flourished for eons and has gone through a number of extinction events that occurred because of cosmic and geological forces. This time, we are creating our own scenario for the next big extinction event, which is already in progress. I think a lot of the major players know this and have fatalistically chosen to ignore it for immediate gains. That is one of our flaws as a specie, we are able to pick and choose what we want to believe. Easy choices that don't require understanding or real thought. I always try to find hope. My wife says I'm an unbearable optimist. I believe we hold the keys to solving most of our real problems, but it is a desperate race between knowledge and stupidity and tragically, the stupid seems to be the winner. I try to stay as far away from large herds of stupid as I can.
ReplyDeleteYou might read The Sixth Extinction. We are already there.
DeleteO'B
Great little video. Thanks. When you think about it, Neanderthals were around a few million years. Modern man for only about 150,000. Civilization of any sort only 5000 years. the more modern world only really 200 years. Another hundred at the rate we are going and we could be gone. I think that the Neanderthals were better off because they were not so bright?
ReplyDeleteOn a whole we are not so bright - just look around. Bright is the exception to the rule.
DeleteO'B
I think one day the earth is going to take a big breath and blow us off of her..then she will start all over again,
ReplyDeleteDid you know that the inventor of the machine gun thought that it would end all wars? We all know how that has gone.
ReplyDeleteThe revolution won’t be fought with pasteurized milk, drink raw milk.
Merry Christmas Eve!
ReplyDeleteAnd a happy new year - what ever that means.
DeleteO'B
We live in this time and place. That alone is a miracle. We have no control on the future or the insanity of the world - we should live in each day, as it is a gift - to do less is to squander an opportunity.
ReplyDeleteO'B
Words to live by, O'B. Hope you folks had a good Christmas and New Years, however you celebrated. We celebrated by eating. Tanya says we are going away next year for two weeks; what she spent on food we could take a holiday. I'll believe that when i see it. Feeding friends and family is her joy.
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