Consider that we got pushed out of the trees (we didn't jump - we were different from the others so they got rid of us) into the middle of a million-year drought, then we discovered our "higher powers" (art, spirituality etc.) in the middle of a quarter-million year ice age. I've long thought that we appear to be a "bad weather animal" -…
Consider that we got pushed out of the trees (we didn't jump - we were different from the others so they got rid of us) into the middle of a million-year drought, then we discovered our "higher powers" (art, spirituality etc.) in the middle of a quarter-million year ice age. I've long thought that we appear to be a "bad weather animal" - we do better in worse times, which brings out that thing that differentiates ourselves from our other fellow travelers on the planet. Call me crazy, but I remain optimistic. Perhaps for the same reason my old friend the late Dick Best told me his fellow fliers and sailors remained optimistic between Pearl Harbor and Midway: "the alternative was unthinkable."
Or did we recognize our difference and choose to leave that tree we had been marginalized to at the edge of the jungle, setting off to find what was beyond the horizon viewed from its branches?
Consider that we got pushed out of the trees (we didn't jump - we were different from the others so they got rid of us) into the middle of a million-year drought, then we discovered our "higher powers" (art, spirituality etc.) in the middle of a quarter-million year ice age. I've long thought that we appear to be a "bad weather animal" - we do better in worse times, which brings out that thing that differentiates ourselves from our other fellow travelers on the planet. Call me crazy, but I remain optimistic. Perhaps for the same reason my old friend the late Dick Best told me his fellow fliers and sailors remained optimistic between Pearl Harbor and Midway: "the alternative was unthinkable."
Or did we recognize our difference and choose to leave that tree we had been marginalized to at the edge of the jungle, setting off to find what was beyond the horizon viewed from its branches?