<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Peter Korsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@severity-one.com">peter@severity-one.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>Was it really that much better? My father comments on how much more<br>
polluted the place used to be. There weren't any fish in the canals in<br>
my parents' village; now they're full of them.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is something I think about often. at any given time, there are only a few generations of humans to ask, but generally speaking I think you find that times have always been tough, the government has always been rotten, we have always been on the brink of one disaster or another and the end has always been nigh...however we are all here, making babies, doing our jobs and getting through life. Some have more, some have less, some have good intentions and some have bad. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Everything starts and everything ends. The Dark Ages ended. The Inquisition ended. Wars have started and ended. Animals have gone extinct and others have thrived in their niche (maybe not ones we particularly like or are as cute, but nature is opportunistic and will always fill a vacuum). McCarthyism ended. The Soviet Union is gone. America's Century is over. People pay their bills in Euro's instead of Marks. Freedoms are granted, taken away, and then fought for and restored. </div>
<div><br></div><div>With that in mind, I have more faith (for lack of a better word) in the future. Not because I think we are necessarily smart enough to get ourselves out of any particular mess but because life is smart enough. Just because there are Humans now doesnt mean there will always be Humans. In fact, at some point there wont be Humans no matter what - thats just evolution. There will be something else, that looks at us and feels uncomfortable accepting us as their ancestor just as much as we would rather not think about that slimy eal thing with the eye stalks and scaly skin as our cousin 100000 times removed. I like this idea a lot. We are someone else's Lucy. Someone else's T-Rex. We are dinosaurs just waiting for that asteroid to put all this petty shit in perspective. </div>
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