Indeed.
The elephant (OK, dinosaur) in the room is the dinosaur - it may have been thick as shit, but its longevity makes our own puny step into the sun look like a blink of the eye....so no time yet to get too cocky. Unfortunately in my cse it may be too late. But....in the long run....we...
I mean find a way to not become extinct. Someone a few years ago posted something on here along the lines of 'humans are destroying the planet so we all need to die'. I think he got a perma ban for Covid denial.
Humans are amazing. I'm very pleased to be one. There is no other life form that...
Speak for youself. I'm on 'the spectrum' and living like an ape, in any way shape or form, would kill me. I like my safe space, order, cleanliness, better food, shower every day, clean my teeth twice a day, no 'preservatives', moderate exercise, balance, electronic music, civilised company...
Well, I imagine that when we lived in small nomadic groups, being strange would have had you chucked out of the community, then you would die. No time to ponce around in a magacity, scavenging in isolation, addicted to opiates. This brutal treament of The Strange, over the generations, has...
That may all happen. You never know. Who would have thought, 20 years ago, that Ireland would have an openly gay tea sock? West Coast North America is another land, too.
Evolution? Minds have evolved. Also we have 'society' which also evolves. We have 'community' which is evolving. We are not suppressed apes, if that was what you implied. Yes, we still have our id, and we need it from time to time....but...:shrug:
Cheer up. Humans have been around for 300,000 years, give or take. We are still here, and we smell better than ever!
(We will find away through this, because we always do - we have minds. Things are 'turbulent' at the moment -they frequently are -, but I am confident we will go 'next stage'...
Sometimes, for a young man, you sound needlessly pessimistic.
A few points:
1. People like to alter their state. Not everyone, but plenty. Drink, tobacco, cannabis . . . . gambling.....
2. We all do things we know we shouldn't, whether it's injecting a drug or simply reading NSC when we should...