Posted by alexandra_k on June 30, 2009, at 5:41:52
In reply to Re: A nice little letter, posted by alexandra_k on June 30, 2009, at 5:33:35
'progress'
pppft.record breaking numbers of flavors of spaghetti sauce
happiness at an all time low
midst of an epidemic'progress' they say
pppft.people like to consider the history of medicine as a story of the triumph of western medicine colonising the world.
an alternative take is the description of the co-evolution of western medicine and disease. the epidemics of the 1900's fairly much eradicated by modern medicine. the current epidemics fairly much unheard of in the 1900's.
'progress' they say
pppft.and round and round we go
i feel sick i wanna get off
people are too busy aspiring to what is 'their right'
(rights don't seem to entail duties for some)
people have rights to x and rights to y
(don't seem to think of how their having x and y entails others won't have z)
we have the right to buy heaps of crap that we throw in the trash
to drive our suv by ourself through the drive through
never mind island communities becoming submerged
half a planet away
its got nothing to do with me
its my right
(we have no obligation to citizens of other nations according to some)
(unless of course we decide to 'lend them a hand' out of charity)i dunno
i feel sick
sometimes i feel sick to be a human being.
dennet helps me. his stuff on how we are the evolved nervous system of the planet. we have developed the capacity to be sentinals for the earth to sense danger from afar and do something about it. or perhaps some have evolved the capacity... sigh.
its ok. jesus will make it all okay.
whatever happens was meant to be.
poster:alexandra_k
thread:902957
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